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No speedy declare of accountability for explosion that occurred on second day of short-term ceasefire agreed between gov’t and Taliban.
At the least 12 individuals have been killed and extra wounded in an explosion at a mosque on the outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, in response to police.
The blast throughout Friday prayers in Shakar Dara district got here on the second day of a three-day ceasefire agreed between the Afghan authorities and the Taliban on the event of the Eid al-Fitr non secular vacation. There was no speedy declare of accountability.
Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz stated explosives had been positioned contained in the mosque beforehand, including that authorities had opened an investigation.
A picture circulating on social media confirmed three our bodies mendacity on the ground of the mosque, the place there gave the impression to be minor injury.
The explosion occurred a day after at the very least 11 individuals had been killed in 4 separate incidents throughout Afghanistan that shattered the relative calm of the ceasefire agreed between the federal government and the Taliban.
Though there have been no studies of direct preventing between the 2 warring sides as they observe the short-term ceasefire, roadside bombs continued to inflict casualties on civilians.