11 killed in mosque blast at Afghanistan's Badakhshan: Report | World News

In any case 11 of us have been killed when an explosion occurred near a mosque in northern Afghanistan at a memorial service for the Taliban’s provincial deputy governor, who died in an assault earlier this week, officers talked about, in step with Al Jazeera.

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The explosion occurred in the midst of the memorial service for Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, the deputy governor of Badakhshan who was killed in a vehicle bombing on Tuesday.

A former Taliban police official was amongst these killed and larger than 30 others have been wounded throughout the explosion near Nabawi Mosque on Thursday, in step with Abdul Nafi Takor, the Taliban-appointed spokesman for the within ministry.

Takor talked about there have been issues that the number of casualties could rise further.

The assault in Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan, moreover killed the deputy governor’s driver and wounded 10 totally different of us.

A vehicle bombing on Tuesday claimed the lifetime of Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, the deputy governor of Badakhshan, and the explosion took place all through his memorial service. The deputy governor’s chauffeur was moreover killed throughout the assault in Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan, and ten totally different of us have been injured.

Safiullah Samim, a former Afghan police chief in Baghlan, was reportedly killed throughout the explosion on Thursday, in step with Moazuddin Ahmadi, the Afghan official accountable for communication and custom, in step with Al Jazeera.

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the assault and tweeted that the bombing of mosques is an act of “terrorism” and goes “in opposition to human and Islamic necessities”.

There was no speedy declare of accountability for the assault. The ISIL (ISIS) armed group claimed accountability for the car bombing on Tuesday.

The Taliban administration has been ending up raids in opposition to members of ISIL, which has claimed a lot of major assaults in metropolis centres, Al Jazeera reported.

The group has targeted Taliban administration officers and claimed the killing of the governor of northern Balkh province in an assault in March.

Quite a lot of senior Taliban officers attended Ahmadi’s funeral, which took place on Wednesday, along with numerous of residents of Faizabad.

The Afghan navy chief, Fasihuddin Fitrat, denounced the assaults in Badakhshan and requested of us to cooperate with Afghan security forces and report suspicious actions of their areas, Al Jazeera reported.

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In December, a vehicle bombing killed Badakhshan’s provincial police chief as he was on his approach to work.

The ISIL regional affiliate, known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, talked about on the time that it had carried out that assault. The group talked about it had parked an explosive-laden vehicle on the road and detonated it when the police chief was shut by.