AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Daesh terrorist group claimed responsibility for an explosion inside a mosque in northern Afghanistan that killed 11 people on Thursday.
The explosion also wounded 30 others inside a mosque in Afghanistan's northern Badakhshan province, according to the Taliban's interior ministry. The blast targeted a memorial service for a Taliban official who was assassinated earlier this week by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.
The ministry said in a statement that the bombing took place at Nabawi Mosque in the Hesa-e-Awal area of Fayzabad district, where "a great number of compatriots" had gathered to pay tribute to Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, the Taliban deputy governor of Badakhshan, who was killed by a car bomb on Tuesday along with his driver and 10 other people.
The statement condemned "this brutality of the disgraced enemies" and said there were concerns that the death toll could rise. Among the dead was Safiullah Samim, a former Taliban police commander of the northern province of Baghlan, local media reported.
Daesh claimed responsibility for the bombing in Badakhshan, which was the latest in a series of attacks by the terrorist group against Taliban administration officials. The defacto government in Afghanistan has been conducting raids against Daesh members across the country since taking power in August.
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