HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Dozens of worshippers were killed and wounded when one suicide bomber blew himself up and a second opened fire inside a mosque in the capital of western Herat province late on Tuesday.
Herat police spokesman Farhad Jilani told Pajhwok Afghan News two suicide bombers targeted the Jawadia mosque of the Shiite minority in Bakrabad area of Herat City.
He said one of the attackers blew himself up and the second opened fire at the worshippers, killing and wounding at least 50.
A spokesman for the civil hospital in Herat City, Mohammad Rafique Sherzai, told Pajhwok that they had been delivered 20 dead bodies and more than 30 wounded people from the scene.
He said the casualty figure might be higher because some wounded and dead bodies had been evacuated to private hospitals.
Some sources put the number of those killed and wounded at 60 and others even at 100. Some 300 people were believed to be present at the mosque.
No one immediately took responsibility for the attack.
