*A powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayersat a Kabul mosque, its leader said, the latest in a series of attacks oncivilian targets in Afghanistan during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.*
The blast hit the Khalifa Sahib Mosque in the west of the capital in theearly afternoon, said Besmullah Habib, deputy spokesman for the interiorministry, who said the official confirmed death toll was 10.
The attack came as worshippers at the Sunni mosque gathered after Fridayprayers for a congregation known as Zikr – an act of religious remembrancepractised by some Muslims but seen as heretical by some hardline Sunnigroups.
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Sayed Fazil Agha, the head of the mosque, said someone they believed was asuicide bomber joined them in the ceremony and detonated explosives.
