Kabul Reels After Attack on Another Shiite Mosque

Kabul Reels After Attack on Another Shiite Mosque
29, 2017
KABUL, Afghanistan — Militants disguised as shepherds who were tending a flock of sheep attacked a Shiite mosque in
Kabul on Friday as worshipers were leaving, killing five people and wounding at least 20 others, officials said.
Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry said it had assigned police officers to guard Shiite mosques across the country,
at a time when the country’s security forces are fighting the Taliban in about 20 of the country’s 34 provinces.
A sticky bomb attached to a police vehicle killed two police officers
and one civilian, and wounded two police officers and 14 civilians, the Interior Ministry said.
In August, after an explosion at the gate of another Shiite mosque in northern Kabul, suicide bombers
stormed the building, killing at least 40 people and exchanging fire for hours with Afghan forces.
"The attacker was posing as a shepherd with sheep,
and when he was trying to get to the Shiite mosque those who were providing security asked him to stop and he detonated his suicide vest." Two vehicles and several shops were damaged by the blast.