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A gunman opened fire on a Sufi shrine in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province, killing ten people. An interior ministry spokesman told AFP about the attack on Friday.
“A gunman fired on members of the Sufi sect. They were taking part in a weekly ritual at a shrine in a remote area of Nahrin district,” the ministry’s Abdul Matin Qani said. “He killed 10 people.”
A Nahrin resident, who knew victims of the attack, told AFP that worshippers had gathered at the Sayed Pacha Agha shrine on Thursday evening.
They had begun a Sufi chant when “a man shot at the dozen worshippers”, he said on condition of anonymity.
“When people arrived for morning prayers, they discovered the bodies,” he added.
Attacks regularly target Sufis during rituals or gatherings in Afghanistan, a country with a very large Muslim majority but where the IEA authorities impose a strict interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia, which is different from Sufism.
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In April 2022, 33 people, including children, were killed in an explosion that targeted a Sufi mosque during Friday prayers in Kunduz province.
The number of bomb attacks has fallen since the IEA authorities returned to power in 2021. However, extremists and the regional branch of the militant Islamic State group, the Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K), still attack targets. They consider these targets heretical.
In September, the IS-K claimed responsibility for an attack in central Afghanistan. The attack killed 14 people. They had gathered to welcome pilgrims returning from the holy site of Karbala in Iraq.
This news is sourced from [Dawn News] and is for informational purposes only.
