An attack against the Shiite community in the Fief of the Kandahar Taliban made more than 40 dead, Friday. The activity of the Islamic State Organization and Kabul’s inability to hinder worry in particular Moscow.
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The day of great weekly prayer, considered in the Muslim world as a moment of peace, again knew the worst violence in Afghanistan, Friday, October 15th. More than forty people were killed and more than seventy injured, during a suicide attack in a Shiite mosque of Kandahar, the largest city in the southern country. This carnage echoes that committed on 8 October in similar circumstances in Kunduz (Northeast), claimed by the Islamic State Organization (EI). In a region where the Taliban are historically highly implanted, this new attack weakens their promise to guarantee security throughout the territory and forbid access to terrorist groups.
According to the first investigative elements, shots and several explosions were identified inside and outside the Fatemieh mosque, Kandahar’s most important Shiite religious establishment. The security forces estimated on Friday night that several kamikazes would have committed this package while nearly five hundred people were hurrying in the premises. The images relayed by local television showed, again, the ambulance broom coming to the rescue of the victims. Lifeless bodies scattered on bloody carpets, littered with clothes, were spanning with dazed survivors, tears or shouting their despair.
As often, in Afghanistan, the assessment of such deadly attacks is imprecise. The sources and centralization of information is little verifiable. In addition, the Taliban are hardly inclined to communicate on these acts involving their authority and the organization of Afghan administrations remains too embryonic to ensure a precise follow-up of the state of the victims, whose number is often much heavier than initially announced. Friday night, Kandahar’s hospitals and clinics were overflowed and caregivers declared sorely of blood, according to a medical source cited by the France-Presse agency.