Afghan blast at mosque kills soldiers

An explosion ripped through a mosque inside an Afghan army base in the country’s volatile eastern Khost province as Friday prayers were drawing to a close, killing 27 soldiers and wounding 57 others.

The blast may have been set off by a suicide bomber or a remotely detonated bomb, but nothing was officially confirmed and details were sketchy. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the explosion.

President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack in a statement as “anti-islamic and inhumane”. He also wanted to know how the army’s security was breached.