Death toll in Afghan mosque bombing rises to 33, Taliban say

By KATHY GANNON and MOHAMMAD SHOAIB AMIN
Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan has killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school. Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s deputy culture and information minister, said the bombing in the town of Imam Saheb, in Kunduz Province, also wounded another 43 people, many of them students. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, but Afghanistan’s Islamic State affiliate has claimed a series of bombings that happened on Thursday, the worst of which was an attack on a Shiite mosque in northern Mazar-e-Sharif that killed at least 12 Shiite Muslim worshippers and wounded scores more.