KABUL (SW): A terrorist attack on a mosque and shrine in Kabul on Tuesday night that claimed some 18 lives has been widely condemned.
At least four suspected terrorists entered the mosque and shrine in Karta-e-Sakhi area in the capital around 7:30 in the evening and started indiscriminate shooting. Abdul Rahman Rahimi, the police chief has said that the security forces managed to kill the terrorists in two hours.
Officials at the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) have confirmed that at least 18 people lost their lives in the attack. Among those killed were four women and two children, a boy and a girl.
President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has strongly condemned the attack on civilians in the mosque. Ghani pronounced this as gross violation of human rights. The UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has also condemns last night’s attack. This attack deliberately targeting a large group of civilians exercising their right to freely manifest their religion in worship, observance and practice is an atrocity, UNAMA said in a message on Wednesday.
International humanitarian law prohibits deliberate attacks against civilians and civilian property, including places of worship, and places a specific obligation on parties to enable religious personnel to carry out their work. International humanitarian law further prohibits attacks directed against people and places of worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples, it added.
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