The blast occurred within the Serahi Alauddin space of the town, personal Afghan channel TOLO information reported citing an eyewitness.
Emergency, a non-governmental group that gives free medical and surgical therapy to Afghan civilians, stated in a tweet that 20 wounded individuals had been handled at its hospital following the explosion.
At least two UN employees members and their households have been contained in the Khalifa Sahib Mosque on the time of the assault, UN deputy spokesman for the secretary normal stated Friday.
Farhan Haq stated he condemned the assault within the “strongest phrases,” calling it “the most recent in a sequence of indiscriminate assaults on civilian targets.”
In an announcement posted to Twitter Friday, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid additionally stated he condemned the assault, which came about days earlier than the tip of Ramadan.
“We strongly condemn at present’s blast at a mosque in Kabul’s sixth District. Such brutal killings throughout this quick are the work of circles that don’t have anything to do with Islam or the nation,” Mujahid tweeted on Friday.
“The Islamic Emirate extends its deepest sympathies to the households of the victims. The perpetrators of those crimes will quickly be discovered and punished, God prepared,” he added.
Weeks of lethal assaults
A sequence of lethal blasts, primarily concentrating on the Hazara Shia group, has rocked a number of Afghan cities over the previous two weeks.
Last week, 33 individuals have been killed and dozens have been injured in a blast at a mosque in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province throughout Friday prayers, based on Taliban spokesman Mujahid.
That blast adopted different assaults in earlier days — one within the metropolis of Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan and one other in Kunduz, together with a number of explosions earlier within the week at a highschool and academic heart in western Kabul.
Most of the current assaults have been claimed by ISIS affiliate group and Taliban rival ISIS-Khorsan (ISIS-Okay). Friday’s explosion has but to be claimed by any group.
CNN’s Mostafa Salem, Nicola Careem and Hannah Ritchie contributed to this report.