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Kabul Shia mosque blast kills dozens | |
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A suicide bomber has killed at least 30 people inside a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials say. | |
An eyewitness told the BBC the scene at the Imam Zaman mosque, in the west of the city, "looks like a front line". | |
The attacker is reported to have opened fire as worshippers gathered for Friday prayers, before detonating a bomb. | |
No group has so far said it had carried out the attack, but so-called Islamic State (IS) has targeted Shia mosques across Afghanistan. | |
A spokesman for the Afghan interior ministry said investigators were working at the scene to determine the "nature of the explosion," AFP news agency reports. | |
Friday's attack comes just days after police in Kabul said they had arrested a would-be suicide truck bomber, averting a major incident. | |
In August, more than 20 people were killed in a bomb attack against worshippers in Kabul. | |
A truck bomb in the Afghan capital in May killed more than 150 people. |