On 21 April 2022, a powerful bomb rocked the Shia Seh Dokan mosque[1] in Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Province, Afghanistan, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 87 others.

[2][3] Worshippers were offering the Zuhr prayer inside the mosque when the bomb exploded.

[4][5] The Islamic State said the attack on the Mazar-e-Sharif mosque was carried out using a remote-controlled booby-trapped bag when the building was packed with worshipers.

The group called the attack part of its ongoing global campaign to "avenge" the deaths of its former leader and spokesman.

Earlier, a bomb blast rocked a high school in the Shiite-populated area of Dasht-e-Barchi, several kilometers from Kabul.