12 killed in airstrike on Afghan mosque

At least 12 children were killed and several others wounded in an airstrike on a mosque in Afghanistan’s northern Takhar Province, Report says, citing TASS.

The strike occurred in the Baharak district, where Taliban fighters had killed over 40 Afghan security forces earlier that day.

An aircraft bombarded the mosque after receiving information that Taliban fighters involved in the hours-before bloody attack on security forces were hiding there.