Police say the suspect has been arrested on the scene of the blast, which occurred after noon prayers.
At the least six folks have been wounded in a grenade blast at a mosque in a densely populated space of the Afghan capital, Kabul, police mentioned, minutes after worshippers supplied noon prayers.
Assaults on public targets have largely diminished because the Taliban seized energy in August final 12 months, however ISIL (ISIS) associates proceed to function in components of the nation.
“We had completed the prayers and had been heading out of the mosque when the blast occurred,” worshipper Mohammed Yasin informed the AFP information company.
Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran informed AFP a grenade was thrown into the Pul-e-Khisti mosque and a suspect was arrested on the scene. The mosque is positioned in a densely populated space of Kabul and is surrounded by busy outlets and markets.
No group has claimed accountability, however the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP, ISIS-Ok) group has carried out current assaults in Kabul and different cities.
The ISKP claimed the assault on a army hospital in Kabul in November which left 19 lifeless. The group additionally claimed the October suicide assault on a Shia mosque in Kandahar which in a minimum of 60 folks had been killed.
Taliban officers insist their forces have defeated the group, however analysts say the ISKP is a key safety problem to the brand new rulers of Afghanistan.
In February, the US supplied as much as $10m for data resulting in the placement or identification of Sanaullah Ghafari, the chief of ISKP, the Afghanistan affiliate of ISIL.
In a separate assault on Sunday, a minimum of one particular person was killed and 59 others wounded in an explosion on the nation’s largest cash altering market, Sarai Shahzada – not removed from the attacked mosque.
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