Afghan Mosque Bomb Kills 11 People, Including Governor of Kunduz Province

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Afghan Mosque Bomb Kills 11 People, Including Governor of Kunduz Province​

This picture shows Kunduz governor Mohammad Omar (2nd L) posing for a group photo in Kunduz province. Omar, an outspoken Afghan governor against the Taliban and 19 other people were killed on October 8 when a powerful blast through a mosque in northern Afghanistan, a police commander told AFP.



A bombing in a mosque in Afghanistan killed at least 15 people, including the governor of the northeastern province of Kunduz, officials said.

The governor, Muhammad Omar, was prominent in the government’s battle against Taliban guerrillas who have been expanding their areas of attack from southern strongholds into northern provinces that for years have been relatively calm.

Omar “is among the dead bodies,” Faiz Mohammed Tawhidy, a spokesman for the governor of neighboring Takhar province, said by phone from its capital of Taloqan, where the attack took place. The bomb detonated in the Jamaa Sherkat mosque as Omar and other men gathered for weekly communal prayers at midday, Tawhidy said.

At least 15 people were killed and 20 wounded, said Interior Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary in the capital, Kabul. “We are investigating whether this bomb was planted or a suicide attack,” he said.

Omar was an enduring figure in the north, a former militia commander during the civil warfare that followed the collapse of Afghanistan’s communist regime in 1992. He had served as a governor under President Hamid Karzai since the U.S.-backed overthrow of Taliban rule in 2001.


Afghan Mosque Bomb Kills 11 People, Including Governor of Kunduz Province - Bloomberg

Afghan governor, 18 others killed in mosque bombing

 

[Spring Onion]

Bloomberg sucks . what is communal prayer

 

[Hyde]

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Bit off-topic though,
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what is communal prayer

 

[Rajkumar]

so much violence in Afghanistan since last two decades makes my imagination totally crippled, i failed to imagine the feeling in living the peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan.