The European Union has condemned in the strongest possible terms the suicide attack on Shia Mosque in Pul-e-Khumri, Baghlan province targeting worshippers during Friday prayers and killing at least seven of them.
According to the statement released by the Commission on Saturday, stated that such attacks deliberately targeting civilians are violations of fundamental human rights and international humanitarian law.
The Commission pressed further that the human rights of all Afghans people, including the right to life and the rights of all ethnic and religious communities, have to be protected and respected. “Our thoughts are with the victims of Friday’s attack and their families”.
It was reported that a suicide bomber blew himself up among worshippers attending Friday prayers at a Shiite mosque in northern Afghanistan, killing at least seven people and wounding 15 others, a police spokesperson said.
The attack happened in the city of Pol-e-Khomri, the capital of Baghlan province, police spokesman Sher Ahmad Borhani said in a statement. Security officials were working to determine how the attacker reached the area to strike at the Imam Zaman mosque.
Islamic State (IS) militant group claimed responsibility for the attack in a post on the Telegram messaging app. Sunni Islamist militants consider Shi’ites to be heretics.
Afghanistan’s Taliban-run administration has faced an insurgency by IS militants, who have claimed a series of deadly attacks on civilians, foreigners and Taliban security forces in recent months.