KABUL, Afghanistan -- A bomb ripped through a mosque in northern Kabul during Friday prayers, killing 12 worshippers, and wounding 15, Afghan police said. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid denied any insurgent connection to the mosque attack, condemning it and accusing Afghanistan’s intelligence agency of being behind the explosion. “I was afraid of a second explosion so I came immediately to my home” he said. Last week, a powerful car bombing attack in Kabul killed over 90 people, many of them students leaving a girls’ school. The base in Kandahar was the second largest U.S. base in Afghanistan, after Bagram north of Kabul.

Source: ABC News May 14, 2021 10:27 UTC