Blast kills 6 near Shia mosque
Six people were killed when a suicide bomber posing as a shepherd blew himself up near a Shia mosque in Kabul on Friday, police said, as Muslims prepared to commemorate a key Islamic event.
At least 20 people were wounded in the Islamic State-claimed attack, which happened in the north of the Afghan capital as worshippers were inside Hussainia mosque, one of the biggest Shia centres in the city, for Friday prayers.
The bomber was grazing a herd of sheep and before reaching his target he detonated himself 140 metres from Hussainia mosque," General Salim Almas, Kabul's criminal investigative director, told AFP.
Following the attack the Taliban were quick to distance themselves from the bombing.
"Today's Kabul attack has nothing to do with us," Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, told AFP.
The Islamic State's local Khorasan province affiliate later claimed responsibility for the blast in a communique, the SITE monitoring group said.
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