Herat mosque bombing: Taliban denies role, casualties climb to 93
At least 93 people have been killed or injured in the suicide attack which took place on Tuesday evening near the Jawadia mosque.
The provincial governor’s spokesman Jilani Farhad said that at least two suicide bombers were involved in the incident.
The bombers opened fired inside the mosque before detonating the explosives, the spokesperson added.
Rejecting all allegations, Taliban spokesperson Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said that the group did not carry out any such attack on Tuesday.
Though no group has claimed responsibility so far, majority of such attacks are carried out by the ISIS these days.
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