Kabul: Atleast 50 people killed in a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in Kunduz city in Afghanistan during Friday prayers. According to the official sources the bodies and debris inside the mosque, used by the minority Shia Muslim community.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. Sunni Muslim extremists, including the local Islamic State (IS) group, have targeted the Shia community because they consider them to be heretics. IS-K, the Afghan regional affiliate of IS that is violently opposed to the Taliban, has carried out several bombings recently, largely in the eastern part of the country.

Information and Culture Deputy Minister Zabiullah Mujahid had confirmed the incident. Today in the afternoon, in the Khanabad Bandar area in the capital city of Kunduz, a blast targeted a mosque belonging to our Shia citizens who martyred and wounded a number of our compatriots, he added.