Pakistan-Based Militants Claim Responsibility for Attacks on Afghan Shiites -- FOX News/AP
KABUL, Afghanistan – A Sunni militant group based in Pakistan is claiming responsibility for a pair of attacks in Afghanistan that killed at least 60 Shiites today.
The deadliest attack came at a mosque in the capital, Kabul, where worshippers were observing a Shiite holy day (Ashoura -- ah-SHOOR'-ah) that marks the seventh century death of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson. A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of men, women and children gathered outside the shrine. The Public Health Ministry says 56 people were killed and more than 160 wounded.
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