7 people, incl. child, killed in attack on Shia mosque in NW Afghanistan: Report
Unknown assailants have reportedly killed at least seven people, including a child, in an attack on a Shia mosque in northwestern Afghanistan.
The country’s TOLOnews network and Aamaj news website reported the tragedy on Monday, citing local sources.
The reports specified the whereabouts of the attack as Guzara District in Herat Province.
The attack targeted the Shia Muslims while they were saying their prayers inside the mosque.
The mosque’s imam is among the victims of the attack that also wounded a number of others.
The rulling Taliban government and Herat's security officials are yet to pass any comments on the incident.
No person or group has claimed responsibility for the assault so far.
A similar attack killed the same number of people, including two Shia clerics and four women, targeting a rickshaw in Herat's provincial capital of the same name back in December.
Shia Muslims form a minority in Afghanistan that is mostly drawn from the country’s Hazara community.
The community, the poorest of the country’s ethnic groups, accounts for about 22 percent of Afghanistan’s population. Its members have been targeted in several large-scale kidnappings and killings, including by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, across Afghanistan in the past.
Also last year, a bombing by the outfit targeted at a mosque in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, killing at least 31 worshipers and injuring more than 80 others.
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