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Over 100 dead in Afghanistan's Kunduz Mosque suicide bomb blast

In the bloodiest assault since US forces left Afghanistan, an apparent bomb attack at a Shia mosque in city of Kunduz killed at least 100 people.

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Over 100 dead in Afghanistan's Kunduz Mosque suicide bomb blast
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Kabul: A blast hit a Shia mosque in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province on Friday (today), injuring several people.

In the bloodiest assault since US forces left Afghanistan, an apparent bomb attack at a Shia mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz killed at least 100 people.

Scores more victims from the minority community were injured in the blast, which has not been claimed but appears designed to further destabilize Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover.

A medical source at the Kunduz Provincial Hospital said that 35 dead and more than 50 injured had been taken there, while a worker at a Doctors Without Borders hospital reported 15 dead and scores more wounded.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid had earlier said an unknown number of people had been killed and injured when “an explosion took place in a mosque of our Shiite compatriots” in Kunduz.

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