KABUL: At least 14 other folks had been killed in a suicide bombing on a meeting of Afghanistan's most sensible clerics right here on Monday, police stated on Monday.
The bomber detonated his explosives near the doorway of a compound the place over 2,000 religious scholars had been meeting within the tent of the Loya Jirga, the council of elders, just about the Kabul Polytechnic University right away after the clerics issued a fatwa against suicide bombings, the Afghan media reported.
No one right away claimed duty for the assault. Initially, 4 other folks had been reported killed but in line with latest updates, the loss of life toll climbed to 14. At least 17 had been injured within the assault, TOLO News reported.
"The suicide attack happened outside the (Loya Jirga) tent when religious scholars were leaving the gathering," Kabul Police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai stated. It was now not right away transparent what number of of them had been among the ones killed.
"War in its all types is illegal according to Sharia and Islamic laws and it is nothing but shedding the blood of Muslims," the Afghan clerics stated within the fatwa.
"Suicide attacks, explosions for killing people, division, insurgency, different types of corruption, robbery, kidnapping and any type of violence are counted as big sins in Islam and are against the order of the Almighty Allah," they stated.
The clerics also instructed the Taliban to just accept the Afghan govt's "unconditional" peace offer.
Kabul has been the target of more than one suicide assaults so far this yr.
The bloodiest was in January when the Taliban blew up an ambulance bomb near the outdated Interior Ministry construction, leaving greater than 100 other folks useless.
Another such assault in Kabul happened remaining week, when a bunch of insurgents attacked the Interior Ministry, leading to a two-hour long siege, during which 10 attackers and one police respectable had been killed.
The bomber detonated his explosives near the doorway of a compound the place over 2,000 religious scholars had been meeting within the tent of the Loya Jirga, the council of elders, just about the Kabul Polytechnic University right away after the clerics issued a fatwa against suicide bombings, the Afghan media reported.
No one right away claimed duty for the assault. Initially, 4 other folks had been reported killed but in line with latest updates, the loss of life toll climbed to 14. At least 17 had been injured within the assault, TOLO News reported.
"The suicide attack happened outside the (Loya Jirga) tent when religious scholars were leaving the gathering," Kabul Police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai stated. It was now not right away transparent what number of of them had been among the ones killed.
"War in its all types is illegal according to Sharia and Islamic laws and it is nothing but shedding the blood of Muslims," the Afghan clerics stated within the fatwa.
"Suicide attacks, explosions for killing people, division, insurgency, different types of corruption, robbery, kidnapping and any type of violence are counted as big sins in Islam and are against the order of the Almighty Allah," they stated.
The clerics also instructed the Taliban to just accept the Afghan govt's "unconditional" peace offer.
Kabul has been the target of more than one suicide assaults so far this yr.
The bloodiest was in January when the Taliban blew up an ambulance bomb near the outdated Interior Ministry construction, leaving greater than 100 other folks useless.
Another such assault in Kabul happened remaining week, when a bunch of insurgents attacked the Interior Ministry, leading to a two-hour long siege, during which 10 attackers and one police respectable had been killed.
At least 14 dead in Kabul suicide blast near gathering of clerics
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