QUETTA - Afghan Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada's brother was killed near Quetta on Friday when a bomb went off but his younger brother.
Hafiz Ahmadullah, was leading Friday prayers and was killed, several Taliban officials have said.
The bomb blast inside the mosque just before Friday prayers killed four people, including the prayer leader, and left 25 others injured in the Kuchlak area on the outskirts of the provincial capital.
The explosion was carried out with the help of a time device, which was planted under the wooden chair of the prayer leader, when he started delivering the Friday sermon, according to police and bomb disposal squad officials.