A bomb has killed three people, including an imam, and injured 20 more during Friday prayers at a mosque in the Paktia Kot area of Kabul, Afghanistan, Reuters has reported citing the country's officials.
#BREAKING a suicide blast happened inside a mosque in PD9 of #Kabul.@moiafghanistan confirmed the blast and said police arrived at the area.
— Mahdi Mudabber (@MahdiMudabber) 24 мая 2019 г.
The name of the killed imam is Maulvi Paihan, he was a religious scholar and the mosque's imam.
MoI: Religions scholar Maulvi Raihan was killed and 16 others wounded in a blast inside a mosque in #kabul. #kabulmosquebombing
— Sheer Ahmad Usmani (@Sheerahmad12) 24 мая 2019 г.
Some internet users have described Maulvi Raihan as one of the most outstanding Islamic scholars in Afghanistan.
#Mulawi Raihan, one of the prominent Islamic scholars of #Kabul regime in #Afghanistan, has been killed in a bomb explosion in a mosque in #Paktiakot area of Kabul city. pic.twitter.com/Vs5yMJipbm
— Tariq Ghazniwal (@TGhazniwal) 24 мая 2019 г.
According to a local police spokesman, explosives might have been placed close to the mosque's altar. No group has claimed responsibility for this attack so far.
There were blasts today in a Quetta Mosque and in a Kabul Mosque people of Pakistan and Afghanistan must find out together that who is targeting their Mosques?Who is trying to create divisions and who is their common enemy?Unite and strike against the common enemy pic.twitter.com/w6GoDNsOIY
— Hamid Mir (@HamidMirPAK) 24 мая 2019 г.
