Several dozen worshipers were killed in a bombing at a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan’s northern city of Kunduz, witnesses and officials said. “This is the bloodiest attack I have seen in my life,” one doctor said.
Several dozen worshipers were killed in a bombing at a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan’s northern city of Kunduz on Friday, witnesses and officials said, in the deadliest Islamic State attack in the country sinceFriday’s explosion took place at around 1 p.m.
local time, just as the mosque in the Khanabad area of Kunduz was packed with worshipers attending the weekly sermon. Matiullah Rohani, a spokesman for the provincial government, said at least 46 people were killed in the suicide blast. Health officials in the city put the death toll at well over 100.
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