KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of villagers attended the funerals held Saturday in eastern Afghanistan for the victims of a deadly bomb that killed 66 people during prayers at a local mosque. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, said that the explosion also wounded 36 people when it went off as dozens of people gathered for Friday prayers in the village of Jodari.
He said it was not immediately clear if the mosque was
attacked by a suicide bomber or by some other type of bombing. He said the
"latest" figure for the death toll was 66. He added that ten wounded
were so far discharged from hospital after treatment. Villagers from the
surrounding Haskamena district said that there were more than one hundred
worshippers at the time of the bombing in the mosque. Gulab Shinwari, a
villager, said that when he reached the site of the blast with other locals,
they found "a heartbreaking scene."
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the
attack, but both the Taliban and the Islamic State group are active in eastern
Afghanistan, especially Nangarhar province. However, Zabihullah Mujahid, the
Taliban's spokesman in a statement condemned the attack in Nangarhar and called
it a serious crime. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
"strongly" condemned the attack and said those responsible must be
held accountable, his office's spokesman said. Amnesty International's deputy
South Asia director, Omar Waraich, said the attack "demands the world's
attention."
"Flagrant violations of international
humanitarian law such as deliberate targeting of civilians are not something
anyone should get used to or learn to ignore," he said. The violence comes
just after a United Nations report said that Afghan civilians are dying in
record numbers in the country's increasingly brutal war, noting that more
civilians died in July than in any previous one-month period since the U.N.
began keeping statistics.
"Civilian casualties at record-high levels
clearly show the need for all parties concerned to pay much more attention to
protecting the civilian population, including through a review of conduct
during combat operations," said Tadamichi Yamamoto, the U.N. secretary-general's
special representative for Afghanistan. The report said that pro-government
forces caused 2,348 civilian casualties, including 1,149 killed and 1,199
wounded, a 26% increase from the same period in 2018.
The report said 2,563 civilians were killed and 5,676
were wounded in the first nine months of this year. Insurgents were responsible
for 62%. July to September were the deadliest months so far this year. Khan
Mohammad another villager said that on the day of the incident there were around
100 to 110 worshippers in the mosque, of which more than 70 were martyred and
more than 30 others were wounded.
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