Daesh said a gun attack in an Afghan mosque killed six people.
Daesh said a gun attack in an Afghan mosque killed six people. Source arabnews.com HERAT: The Daesh organisation has taken credit for the six fatal shootings that occurred on Monday at a Shiite mosque in western Afghanistan. The previous night, at about 9:00 p.m. (1630 GMT), in the Guzara district of Herat province, "an unknown armed person shot at civilian worshippers in a mosque," according to Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani on Tuesday morning. He posted on social networking platform X, saying, "Six civilians were martyred and one civilian was injured." Contrary to the official story of a lone attacker, the local branch of the Daesh group claimed credit late on Tuesday and stated that multiple shooters had stormed the mosque with machine guns. The mosque, which catered to the minority Shiite community and was situated somewhat south of the provincial capital Herat, was alleged to have