Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August, the bomb attacks declined, but the Jihadists and the Islamic State group continue their attacks on targets they judge heretics.
Le Monde with AFP
The attacks follow one another in Afghanistan. At least 33 people were killed in the explosion that struck a mosque during the Friday, April 22 prayer, in the north of the country, Taliban government spokesman.
“The explosion occurred in a mosque of the Kunduz Imam Sahib District, causing the death of 33 civilians including children,” said Twitter the government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
Since the Taliban has taken control of Afghanistan in August after being overthrown the authorities supported by the United States, the number of bomb attacks decreased but the Jihadists and the Islamic State Organization ( EI) continued their attacks on targets they deem heretic.
“The show at the mosque was horrible”
“We condemn this crime (…) and express our deepest sympathy to the bereaved people,” said Zabihullah Mujahid. Images posted on social networks, which could not be verified in the immediate future, showed the walls holed by the impacts of the Mawlavi Sikandar mosque, frequented by Sufis.
Jihadist groups such as the EI do a deep hatred at this Muslim current that they consider as heretic and that they accuse polytheism – the greatest sin in Islam – for asking the intercession of saints dead.
“The show at the mosque was horrible. All those who prayed inside were either wounded either killed,” said Mohammad Esah, the owner of a nearby store.
A caregiver member of a near hospital told the France-Press agency (AFP), on the phone, between thirty and forty people had been admitted to this establishment after the attack. “People gathered to pray at the mosque and the explosion occurred,” said the phone at AFP a witness.
Bomb attacks in series
This explosion occurs in the aftermath of two attacks claimed by the Islamic State in Afghanistan, who have a total of at least sixteen and dozens of wounded. Twelve faithful were perished and 58 were injured in a Attack Thursday against a Shiite mosque in the city of Mazar-e-Chaif (North).
The same day, at least four people were killed and eighteen wounded in Kunduz in the explosion of a bomb placed on a bike, at the passage of a vehicle carrying civilian civilians working for a Talibane military unit . On the other hand, no group has yet claimed the two explosions on Tuesday in a boys’ school of a Shiite district of Kabul, who made six deaths and more than twenty-five wounded.
The Shiite Afghans, from most of the Hazara community which is between 10 and 20% of the 38 million inhabitants of Afghanistan, have long been the target of the EI, which also sees in them heretics .
Earlier Friday, the Talibane authorities reported having stopped the “brain” of the bomb attack on Thursday at the Mazar-e-Charif Mosque. Taliban officials insist that their forces have defeated the Islamic State group, but analysts believe that this jihadist organization is still a major danger for security in Afghanistan.