Daish claims responsibility for Afghanistan mosque attack - AMAQ

Daish has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a Shi'ite mosque in Afghanistan that killed and wounded dozens of people on Tuesday, Reuters reports.

The group's official agency AMAQ said on Wednesday: "About 50 Shi'ite were killed and 80 wounded in an attack by Daish militants yesterday on a husseiniya in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan.".

Officials on Tuesday said the attack had killed more than 29 people and wounded at least 64.

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