Police Foils Deadly Attack In Faryab Mosque

MEP-explosives defused in FaryabMEP: Security officials in northern Faryab province discovered and neutralized a mine that was placed inside a mosque.

Karim Youresh, Faryab police spokesman said armed opposition groups planned to carry out a deadly attack on prayers inside a mosque in Maimana city.

He added “the militants had embedded the bomb inside the loudspeaker of the mosque and wanted to cause mass destruction in the mosque with the explosion of the mine, fortunately, with the cooperation of the people and the engineering team of Faryab police chief, the mine has been defused”.

The mine was an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) which was controlled remotely.

According to Youresh, no arrests have been made so far in connection with the report but efforts to identify and arrest the perpetrators of the bombing by the security organs of Faryab started.

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