In Afghanistan, at least 27 people were killed and 35 wounded in a suicide blast in Kabul at a Shia mosque targeting worshippers gathered for a religious ceremony there, a senior police official said. Police cordoned off the area around the Baqirul Olum mosque in the west of the Afghan capital.
The religious ceremony of Arbaeen, which comes 40 days after the major festival of Ashura was being marked when the blast took place. Ashura commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad who was assassinated in the year 680.