Dozens killed in suicide bombing of mosque in Afghan city of Herat

A suicide attack at a packed Shia Mosque in the western Afghan province of Herat has killed at least thirty worshippers and injured sixty three more.
 
More than sixty people are believed to have been wounded; many of them were taken to the main hospital in Herat city.

The attack took place in the middle of evening prayers when the mosque was packed with about three hundred worshippers.

SOURCE: ALJAZEERA