Blast Targets Friday Prayers in Nangarhar, Kills at Least Two (+Video)
No detailed report about casualties of the attack have been released but local sources say at least two people have been killed and dozens injured.
Aljazeera put the number of wounded people at 18, noting that they have been transferred to a local hospital.
A Taliban spokesman in the province confirmed the blast, noting that 15 individuals have been injured.
Other reports indicate that the imam of the mosque is among the injured.
No group has so far claimed responsibility of the attack but Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorists had claimed responsibilities of other similar attacks against Friday prayers in the past two months.
Last month, a large explosion claimed by Daesh hit a Shia mosque in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar. More than 60 people were killed and scores of others wounded in the attack.
It came just one week after Daesh terrorists targeted a mosque in Kunduz, killing some 100 people and injuring some 200 others.
The Taliban took power in Afghanistan in mid-August, as the US was in the middle of a chaotic troop withdrawal from the country.
The group first ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, when the United States invaded the country and toppled the Taliban-run government on the pretext of fighting terrorism.
