Fresh reports reaching the desk of Africa Daily News, New York has revealed that up to 60 people have been confirmed dead after a huge bomb had hit a mosque in Kabul during evening prayers on Wednesday.
Khalid Zadran who is the Taliban’s Kabul police spokesman had revealed to local media that there had been an explosion in the city’s 17th district, northern Kabul, he also announced that some of the Taliban forces are now at the scene.
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It was also revealed that the Police have reported multiple casualties but did not say how many while Indian TV network TV9 reported that 60 people have been killed and more than 30 injured.
The Imam of the mosque was said to be among those killed and the toll could still rise, the source added. Intelligence teams were at blast site and investigations were ongoing.
Emergency NGO, a Kabul hospital, tweeted that they had received 27 people so far following an explosion ‘in the PD17 area’.
‘5 children among them, including a 7-year-old,’ the official account added.
Witnesses said powerful explosion was heard in a northern Kabul neighbourhood, shattering windows in nearby buildings. Ambulances rushed to the spot.
‘A blast happened inside a mosque…. the blast has casualties, but the numbers are not clear yet,’ Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran told Reuters.
Other officials in the Taliban government did not reply to multiple requests to confirm the number of casualties.
In another report, Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said Saturday they will resume issuing passports in Kabul, giving hope to citizens who feel threatened living under the Islamists’ rule.
Thousands of Afghans have also applied for new travel documents to escape a growing economic and humanitarian crisis described by the UN as an “avalanche of hunger”.
The authorities will start issuing the travel documents from Sunday at Kabul’s passport office, Alam Gul Haqqani, the head of the passport department in the interior ministry, told reporters.
