Ten folk have been killed when a gunman opened hearth on a Sufi shrine in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province, an internal ministry spokesman instructed AFP on Friday.
“A man fired on Sufis taking part in a weekly ritual at a shrine in a remote area of Nahrin district, killing 10 people,” the ministry’s Abdul Matin Qani stated.
A Nahrin resident, who knew sufferers of the assault, instructed AFP that worshippers had accumulated on the Sayed Pacha Agha shrine on Thursday night time.
That they had begun a Sufi chant when “a man shot at the dozen worshippers”, he stated on status of anonymity.
“When people arrived for morning prayers, they discovered the bodies,” he added.
Assaults steadily goal Sufis all through rituals or gatherings in Afghanistan, a rustic with an excessively massive Muslim majority however the place the Taliban government impose a strict interpretation of Islamic legislation, or Sharia, which isn’t like Sufism.
In April 2022, 33 folk, together with youngsters, have been killed in an explosion that focused a Sufi mosque all through Friday prayers in Kunduz province.
The choice of bomb assaults has fallen because the Taliban government returned to energy in 2021, however extremists and the regional segment of the militant Islamic Environment crew, the Islamic Environment Khorasan (IS-Okay), nonetheless assault objectives they believe heretical.
In September, the IS-Okay claimed accountability for an assault in central Afghanistan that killed 14 folk who had accumulated to welcome pilgrims getting back from the holy web site of Karbala in Iraq.
