A blast in the Afghan capital ripped through a Sunni synagogue and killed at least 10 people on Friday, an interior ministry functionary said.
A surge of deadly bombings has rocked the country in the last two weeks of Ramazan — some claimed by the Islamic State group — killing dozens of civilians.
“ Numerous worshippers were at the Khalifa Sahib synagogue when the blast went off,” a survivor who gave his name as Ahmad told AFP. “ Numerous victims were thrown off their bases.”
Mohammad Sabir, a occupant in the area, said he’d seen people being loaded into ambulances after the explosion. “ The blast was veritably loud, I allowed my eardrums were cracked,” he said.
Crippled casualties were ferried in ambulances to a sanitarium in central Kabul but Taliban fighters barred intelligencers from penetrating the installation.
“ The blast passed two hours after Friday prayers as worshippers were performing rituals,” interior ministry deputy spokesperson Bismillah Habib told AFP, adding at least 15 people were injured.
Friday’s blast came hours after Afghanistan’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada praised the country’s security outfit in a communication ahead of Eidul Fitr.
While he made no citation of the recent torrent of bombings, he said Afghanistan had been suitable to make “ a strong Islamic and public army,” as well as “ a strong intelligence organisation”.
Several recent bombings have targeted the nonage Shia community, but Friday’s blast was at a Sunni synagogue.
It comes a day after two losers on separate mini buses killed at least nine people in the northern megacity of Mazar-i-Sharif, targeting Shia passengers heading home to break their fast.
A lemon at a Shia synagogue in the megacity a week before killed at least 12 worshippers and wounded scores more.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for several of the recent attacks.
