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Updated: October 05, 2022

Afghan Taliban Reveal Mosque Explosion At Government Ministry In Kabul

By Quadri Adejumo
October 05, 2022
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A blast struck a mosque at a government ministry building in Kabul on Wednesday as workers and visitors were praying.

A Taliban official said the afternoon explosion went off inside the mosque of the Interior Ministry, which is responsible for security and law enforcement in the country.

A Taliban-appointed spokesperson for the Interior Ministry, Abdul Nafi Takor, said; "Unfortunately there was an explosion inside a(n) ancillary mosque where some Interior Ministry workers and visitors were praying.”

The mosque blast follows last week's suicide bombing at an education center in Kabul that killed as many as 52 people, according to a tally compiled by The Associated Press, more than twice the death toll acknowledged by Taliban officials.

Taliban security officials initially said 19 people had been killed at the Kaaj Higher Educational Center, then revised the death toll to 25 over the weekend.