A bombing claimed by the EI has made at least 55 dead, Friday, October 8, in a Shiite mosque from the north-east of the country.
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In-power in mid-August in Afghanistan, the Taliban, proud to end up with the violence of which they were the main authors, discover, in turn, the affres of a country faced with rehearsal attacks. At least 55 people, according to temporary elements, were killed, Friday, October 8, in a suicide attack perpetrated during the great weekly prayer in a Shiite mosque of Kunduz, in northeastern Afghanistan. The attack, claimed by the Islamic State Organization (EI), also did more than a hundred wounded. The balance sheet threatens to be one of the heavier recorded since the departure of foreign troops, August 30th.
On this day of rest, more than 300 people crowded Friday prayers in Gozar-e-Sayed Abad’s mosque, in the heart of the Shiite district of Khan Abad Bandar, Kunduz. According to the first findings, Kamikaze slipped among the faithful before blowing the explosives he was on him, explained the Ministry of Culture and Information Taliban. The explosion, bringing up a thick black smoke in the city of the city, has spared no window and shouted with the walls of the mosque. A panic movement then spread throughout the neighborhood.
On their arrival, help has discovered lifeless bodies intertwined. An incessant ballet of ambulances began to conduct the many victims at the Kunduz Central Hospital or the local medical clinic without borders (MSF) – the latter indicated that you have taken over twenty dead and more than eighty- Ten wounded. The green carpet of the mosque, stained with blood and littered with torn clothes, carried the stigmas of violence that deliberately targeted the Shiite Hazara minority which represents between 10% and 20% of the Afghan population.
Particularly murderer attacks
The EI had claimed the attack on August 26, on the outskirts of Kabul Airport, which had made 182 dead, including 13 US soldiers. On May 8, in the capital, more than 50 Hazaras high school students had lost their lives in an attack assumed by the EI, and a hundred people had been injured. According to the Ministry of the Interior, three successive explosions had sounded in front of the school located in the Shiite district of the city and had left no chance to young girls aged 13 to 18 who were trying to flee after the first detonation. a car trapped.
The EI has committed, between 2018 and 2021, the most deadly attacks in the country, targeting mosques, hospitals and public places such as Kabul University. The organization attacks, in particular, to the Shiite Hazara minority that it considers as “heretics”. According to the United Nations, in July, a report on this group to the Security Council, the EI staff in the country are estimated at “between 500 and a few thousand fighters”. This organization would, moreover, have established “informal contacts with other terrorist groups, particularly in Pakistan, which regularly attack Pakistani positions along the border”.
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