Afghanistan: Blast hits Herat mosque, casualties feared

At the very least one particular person was as soon as killed and seven others wounded in an explosion out of doors a Shia mosque within the western Afghan metropolis of Herat, an salubrious told Al Jazeera.

Two suicide bombers tried to enter the Nabi Akram mosque in Police District 7 on Sunday, but had been pushed encourage by security guards.

« One was as soon as killed in firing and the other triggered his explosives causing casualties, » he acknowledged.

The Islamic Grunt of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, regularly is named ISIS) claimed accountability for the attack in a assertion sent to media, without providing proof for the articulate.

The sphere of the explosion has been cordoned off by police. 

Shia Muslims are a persecuted minority in Afghanistan and had been threatened by the affiliate of the ISIL community that operates within the nation’s east.

The attack comes days after an ISIL bomber targeted a community of Shia marking the Persian new yr in kabul, killing no less than 30 of us.