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Daniel Keane

At least 33 dead in mosque explosion in Afghanistan

Taliban fighters and medical staff stand outside the gate of a hospital after an explosion at Imam Sahib district

(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

At least 33 people have been killed after a bomb was detonated at a mosque and religious teaching school in Afghanistan, a Taliban official has said.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s deputy culture and information minister, said the bombing in the town of Imam Saheb, in Kunduz Province, also wounded another 43 people, many of them students.

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