An explosion went off in a mosque in the Spin Ghar district of eastern Afghanistan, wounding more than a dozen.
The government spokesman for Nangarhar Province, Mohammad Hanif, told Voice of America that it appeared like the bomb had been planted inside the mosque on Friday afternoon and that at least 15 people were wounded, though there were no deaths.
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No group claimed responsibility for the attack in its immediate aftermath, and it’s the latest in a series of similar bombings that have taken place in recent weeks since the Taliban took over control of the government and the U.S. withdrew.
The mosque that was targeted on Friday is one attended by Sunni Muslims, while the previous attacks have struck Shiite mosques, according to Reuters. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the previous attacks.
ISIS and the Taliban are enemies of one another, though Western countries are concerned about the possibility that the latter could allow the former to grow and prosper in Afghanistan.
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A Taliban spokesperson told reporters that they had arrested 600 ISIS-K militants and killed close to 40 others.
“We have seen the Taliban claims,” a State Department spokesperson told VOA. “We note that ISIS-K remains a resilient enemy. It is clearly in the Taliban’s interest to continue to focus their efforts on eliminating this virulent terrorist group.”
