At least 12 people have been killed in a suicide attack targeting Muslim leaders and scholars who had gathered in a tent near the Polytechnic University in the capital, officials said.
Afghan interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish said dozen others were wounded in Monday’s attack and that the death toll is expected to rise.
“The attackers was on foot near the gate of the university,” he said.
Al Jazeera’s Jennifer Glasse, reporting from Kabul, said that about 2,000 religious scholars had gathered in the tent to issue a ‘fatwa’ against suicide bombings.
“The gathering had just finished and the clerics were coming out of the tent when that sucide bomber went off,” she said.
“They had just come to an agreement saying that suicide bombing was unislamic.”
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