A suicide bomber has blown himself up in a banqueting hall where Islamic religious scholars had gathered in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing more than 50 people, government officials say.Najib Danish, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said more than 80 other people had been injured in Tuesday’s blast.”A suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside a wedding hall where Islamic religious scholars had gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the Prophet Mohammad’s birth,” Danish said.The banquet room is in the Uranus wedding hall, a complex housing several large reception rooms near Kabul airport.”Hundreds of Islamic scholars and their followers had gathered to recite verses from the holy Quran to observe the Eid Milad-un-Nabi festival at the private banquet hall,” said a spokesman for Kabul police.Officials at Kabul’s Emergency Hospital said 30 ambulances had rushed to the scene and over 40 people were critically wounded.Both the Sunni Taliban militant group and a local Islamic State affiliate have in the past attacked religious scholars aligned with the government — who have decreed that suicide attacks are forbidden by Islam.But the Taliban said in a statement that “our men were not involved in the Kabul blast and we condemn the loss of human… Read full this story
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