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Kabul (AP) - According to the police, at least twelve people were killed in an attack on a mosque in Afghanistan on Friday.
The attack occurred north of the capital Kabul in the district of Shakar Dara during a ceasefire at the end of the Muslim month of fasting Ramadan.
The imam of the mosque is also among the fatalities.
According to the provincial police, at least 15 people were injured.
At first nobody accused themselves of the crime.
The attack took place during the Eid holiday at the end of Ramadan, for which the militant Islamist Taliban had announced a three-day ceasefire.
According to the police, several explosive devices were detonated inside the mosque.
At first she did not give any details.
At least 85 people, including many children, died in an attack near a school in Kabul last Saturday.
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Heavy fighting has raged again in Afghanistan in the past few weeks.
With the start of the official withdrawal of troops from the USA and other NATO countries on May 1, the Taliban launched new offensives in several provinces.
Both sides declared that they had inflicted heavy losses on the enemy.
From 1996 until the US-led intervention in 2001, the Islamists controlled large parts of Afghanistan.
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