33 Killed, 73 Wounded as Another Blast Hits Afghan Shiites Mosque

After a suicide bomb attack, Afghan men inspect the damage inside a Shiite mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Oct. 15, 2021. Javed Tanveer/AFP via Getty Images

A large explosion rocked a Shiites mosque in southern Afghanistan on Oct. 15, killing at least 33 people and wounding 73 others, the Taliban terrorist group said.

“We are saddened to learn that an explosion took place in a mosque of the Shiite Brotherhood in the first district of Kandahar city in which a number of our compatriots were martyred and wounded,” Taliban spokesman Sayed Khosti said on Twitter.