A suicide bomber targeted a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul on Friday, killing 30 civilians and wounding 45, AP reported. The attacker walked into to the Imam Zaman mosque, where he detonated his explosives, Major General Alimast Momand, a representative of the country’s Interior Ministry told the news agency.
Another attack on a Shiite mosque, in Ghor province of Afghanistan, killed at least 20 people, Reuters reported quoting Iqbal Nezami, a spokesperson for the Ghor provincial police. However, the agency quoted Balkh provincial Governor Atta Mohammad Noor as saying that 30 people were killed including the target of the bombing – a top local leader from the Jamiat political party.
Six civilians died and 30 were injured in a suicide bomb attack near a mosque in Kabul on September 29. The bomber blew himself up about one kilometre from the Hussainia Mosque just after Friday prayers were completed and as people were leaving the mosque.

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