Twelve killed in explosion at Kabul mosque during Friday prayers

The blast came less than a week after an explosion at a school killed 80 people, most of them school girls from the ethnic Hazara Shiite Muslim minority

An explosion inside a mosque on the outskirts of the Afghan capital Kabul killed at least 12 people during Friday prayers as worshippers gathered for the Eidal-Fitr holiday during a ceasefire. The Taliban insurgent group, which declared the three-day truce for the holiday, condemned the attack in a statement, and there was no immediate claim of responsibility. Ferdous Faramarz, spokesman for the Kabul police, said themosque's Imam was among the 12 dead and that at least 15 peoplewere wounded in the blast at a mosque in the capital's ShakarDara district.