{"id":4654,"date":"2017-08-27T06:26:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T06:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4654-20-killed-as-bomb-attack-hits-shia-mosque-in-afghan-capital\/"},"modified":"2017-08-27T06:26:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T06:26:55","slug":"20-killed-as-bomb-attack-hits-shia-mosque-in-afghan-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4654-20-killed-as-bomb-attack-hits-shia-mosque-in-afghan-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"20 killed as bomb attack hits Shia mosque in Afghan capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bomber has set off his explosives at a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and other assailants have stormed the building, killing at least 20 people.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>A bomber has set off his explosives at a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and other assailants have stormed the building, killing at least 20 people.<\/h4>\n<h4>The Daesh Takfiri terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack that took place when many Muslim worshipers had gathered at the mosque for Friday prayers.<\/h4>\n<h4>Mohammad Salim Rasouli, chief of Kabul&#8217;s hospitals, said at least 50 other people, including many children, were injured.<\/h4>\n<h4>An official at Afghanistan\u2019s Interior Ministry earlier said at least eight policemen had been wounded.<\/h4>\n<h4>The ministry confirmed that the incident was a &#8220;terrorist attack,\u201d with deputy spokesman Najib Danish saying that the bomber had detonated himself while two or three other militants had entered the mosque and were exchanging fire with policemen.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15165\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/08\/images_2017_08_27_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/08\/images_2017_08_27_04.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/08\/images_2017_08_27_04-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/08\/images_2017_08_27_04-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bomber has set off his explosives at a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and other assailants have stormed the building, killing at least 20 people. \u00a0 A bomber has set off his explosives at a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and other assailants have stormed the building, killing at least &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43,673,233,214],"class_list":["post-4654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-afghanistan","tag-explosion","tag-kabul","tag-mosque"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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