adminat a shrine in Kabul on the Shiite holy day of Ashura. At least 50 others were wounded as the bomb — reportedly stuffed with ball-bearings — ripped through the crowd of worshippers in Maymana city in Faryab province.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but suicide bombings are a favourite weapon of Taliban Islamists trying to topple the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai. Provincial police chief Abdul Khaliq Aqsai said he believed the attack was revenge for the killing of the Taliban’s “shadow governor” for the province in a clash with security forces on Thursday. The attacker was wearing a police uniform when he blew himself up at the entrance to the city’s packed Eid Gah mosque, deputy provincial governor Abdul Satar Barez said.
“We have 42 dead — more than 20 are security forces and the rest of them are civilians, including five or six children. Around 51 are wounded, some 15 of them critically injured,” he said.
A member of parliament for Faryab, Naqeebullah Fayeq, who was present during the attack put the death toll at 47.
Barez, like many other provincial officials, was also at the scene at the time of the bombing and described the horror of the blast in the midst of a religious celebration. — AFP.
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