Six killed in Afghanistan mosque attack

KABUL: Six people were killed when a gunman stormed a mosque in western Afghanistan, a government spokesman said Tuesday.

Interior ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said that around 9:00 pm (1630 GMT) on Monday night, “an unknown armed person shot at civilian worshipers at a mosque in which six civilians were martyred” in the Guzara district of Herat province.

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“Six civilians were martyred and one civilian was injured,” he wrote on social media platform X early Tuesday morning.

The state-run Bakhtar News Agency gave the same death toll for the attack, which took place in a district just south of the provincial capital of Herat city.

While no group has yet claimed the attack, analysts say the regional chapter of ISIS is the largest security threat in Afghanistan.

Web Desk