Death toll in Afghan mosque bombing rises to 33, Taliban say

A Taliban official said the bombing in a school and religious school in North Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 33 people, including students from religious schools.

Zabihullah Mujahid, Deputy Minister of Culture and Information Taliban, said the bombing in the city of Imam Saheb, in Kunduz Province, also injured 43 other people, many of them students.

No one immediately claimed responsibility, but Afghan Islamic State affiliation on Friday claimed a series of bombings that occurred the day before, the worst was an attack on the Shiite Mosque in North Mazar-e-Sharif which killed at least 12 Shiite Shiite Muslim Muslim worshipers more scores hurt.

Previously, Kunduz Province police spokesman put the dead in Malawi Bashir Ahmad Mosque and Madrassa Compound at Imam Saheb in two people killed and six injured. Mujahid then tweeted a higher number of victims Tweeting “We condemn this crime … and expressed our deepest condolences to the victims”.

Friday bombings are the latest in a series of deadly attacks in Afghanistan. Mujahid said the perpetrators of the Kunduz attack “Sediist and evil elements.

The United Nations said the attack was “terrible”. The representative representative for Afghanistan Ramiz Alakbarov said in a tweet that “murder must stop now and the perpetrators were taken to court”.

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