KABUL – At least 12 people have died in a bombing that ripped through amosque in northern Kabul during Friday prayers , Afghan police said.

Another 15 people were wounded after the bomb exploded as prayers hadbegun. No one claimed responsibility for the bombing. Kabul police say aninvestigation is underway.

The explosion comes on the second day of a three-day ceasefire announced bythe warring Taliban and Afghan government. The pause was for the Islamicfestival Eid-al-Fitr, which follows the fasting month of Ramadan.

Last week, a powerful car bomb had killed over 90 people, many of thempupils. The Taliban denied involvement and condemned the attack.