KABUL — Twenty-five people were killed after gunmen opened fired at a gurdwara in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, the local media has reported. The terror group ISIS has claimed the attack, news agency AFP reported.
The sound of at least one blast was heard from the area, suggesting the possibility of suicide bombers, but its cause was unclear and also it was not immediately possible to find if it happened inside the temple or outside.
The attack, the first of its kind against a worshiping center for the Sikh minorities in the capital, happened during a morning ritual ceremony. Several residents said they believed that dozens of worshipers were inside the compound when it began.
Anarkali Honaryar, an Afghan Sikh lawmaker, told media that one child and four women were among the casualties and that it took security forces hours to secure the site because of the large number of civilians present.
In 2018, Prominent Sikh leaders were also killed in an Islamic State suicide attack in the eastern city of Jalalabad.