[kellyhound]

A blast tore through a mosque in Afghanistan's northeastern Kunduz province on Friday, killing and wounding many people, Taliban officials said.

Video footage showed bodies surrounded by debris inside the mosque that is used by people from the minority Shi'ite Muslim community.

No group immediately claimed responsibility. The blast followed several attacks, including one at a mosque in Kabul, in recent weeks, some of which have been claimed by the Sunni Muslim militants of Islamic State.

One Taliban official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said at least 28 55 people had been killed and dozens more wounded in Friday's blast.

Update:

A suicide bomb attack on worshippers at a Shiite mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz killed at least 55 people Friday, in the bloodiest assault since US forces left the country.
Scores more victims from the minority community were wounded in the blast, which was claimed by the Islamic State group and appeared designed to further destabilise Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover.

The Islamic State group, bitter rivals of the Taliban, has repeatedly targeted Shiites in a bid to stir up sectarian violence in Sunni-majority Afghanistan.

In a statement released on its Telegram channels, the Islamic State said that an IS suicide bomber "detonated an explosive vest amid a crowd" of Shiite worshippers who had gathered inside the mosque.

The statement identified the bomber as "Muhammad al-Uyguri", implying he was a member of China's mainly-Muslim Uyghur minority.

A medical source at the Kunduz Provincial Hospital said that 35 dead and more than 55 wounded had been taken there, while Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said 20 dead and scores more wounded were brought to its hospital.

Matiullah Rohani, director of culture and information in Kunduz for Afghanistan's new Taliban government, confirmed to AFP that the deadly incident was a suicide attack and said that 46 people had died and 143 were wounded.

Mulawi Dost Muhammad, Taliban security chief of Kunduz, accused the attackers of trying to foment trouble between Shiites and Sunnis, and insisted there was no dispute between the movement and the minority.

"We assure our Shiite brothers that in the future, we will provide security for them and that such problems will not happen to them," he said.

Residents of Kunduz, the capital of a province of the same name, told AFP the blast hit the mosque during Friday prayers, the most important of the week for Muslims.

[Krootbeast]

Looks like they had a blast!

[gimlet]

Some religion. Walk into a place of worship loaded with explosive, maybe some nails, and detonate. The women are so naturally porky and overdressed any one of them could be a walking bomb.

Joe O'Biden just let thousands of these Afganis into the USA, only about 3% of the admitted were qualified to come to the USA.

[Killgaad]

I see Mr. Tarrant is out on parole early.

[fuadalzakia]

Now the western "invaders" are gone, they're back to "killing each other for fun" business!

[Killgaad]

Originally Posted by gimlet ↗

Some religion. Walk into a place of worship loaded with explosive, maybe some nails, and detonate. The women are so naturally porky and overdressed any one of them could be a walking bomb.

Joe O'Biden just let thousands of these Afganis into the USA, only about 3% of the admitted were qualified to come to the USA.

"naturally porky"

This just made my day.

[gimlet]

Originally Posted by Killgaad ↗

"naturally porky"

This just made my day.

Killgaad, glad you enjoyed it. I was trying to decide between the words "misshapen", "amorphous" and "porky" to describe their women. "Porky" seemed to me more in the vernacular, and had the added benefit of relating to a unclean moslem animal (pigs).

pork·y1
/ˈpôrkē/

adjective
adjective: porky; comparative adjective: porkier; superlative adjective: porkiest
1.
INFORMAL
(of a person or part of their body) fleshy or fat.
"he bent his squat, porky frame over the rail of the bed"
2.
of or resembling pork.
"meaty rashers with a mild porky aroma"

[v1r]

Thanks for sharing Kelly.

[pokerplay]

The religious are taking themselves out bit by bit.

[Vixənn]

well, the job definitely got done, that's for true.