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| At least 62 people have been killed and dozens injured by a bomb during Friday prayers at a mosque in Afghanistan, according to a provincial spokesman. | At least 62 people have been killed and dozens injured by a bomb during Friday prayers at a mosque in Afghanistan, according to a provincial spokesman. |
| The force of the blast, in eastern Nangarhar province, destroyed the building's roof, eyewitnesses said. | The force of the blast, in eastern Nangarhar province, destroyed the building's roof, eyewitnesses said. |
| No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. | No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. |
| The blast came the day after the UN said the number of civilian deaths in the war-torn country had reached unprecedented levels over the summer. | |
| According to the UN, 1,174 civilians were killed between July and September, the deadliest quarter since UN records began a decade ago. | |
| Meanwhile, a BBC study which attempted to document every killing during the month of August found a fifth of all those who lost their lives were civilians. | |
| Attaullah Khogyani, the provincial governor's spokesman, told the BBC that the 62 people killed and 36 more injured in Friday's attack were worshippers. | Attaullah Khogyani, the provincial governor's spokesman, told the BBC that the 62 people killed and 36 more injured in Friday's attack were worshippers. |
| The mosque sits in the district of Haska Mina, about 50km (30 miles) from the provincial capital Jalalabad. | The mosque sits in the district of Haska Mina, about 50km (30 miles) from the provincial capital Jalalabad. |
| Eyewitnesses reported hearing a loud explosion, before the roof of the mosque caved in. According to Afghanistan's Tolo News, a number of explosives are believed to have been used. | |
| "It was a heartbreaking scene I witnessed with my eyes," tribal elder Malik Mohammadi Gul Shinwari told the Reuters news agency. | |
| Local police officer Tezab Khan said he could hear the sound of the Mullah preaching but "suddenly his voice was silenced with a boom". | |
| "When I arrived on the scene, people were trying to bring out the bodies and injured who were stuck under the fallen roof," he added. | |
| Sohrab Qaderi, a member of the provincial council in Nangarhar, warned the number a casualties was likely to rise as people were "working to bring out the bodies from the rubble". | |
| It is not clear who carried out the attack. The Taliban have denied they were behind the bombing. | |
| Both the Taliban and the Islamic State militant group are known to be active in the area. | |
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| According to the UN, anti-government forces have been responsible for the majority of civilian deaths since the start of 2019, due to the surge in violence over the summer. | |
| This is change from the first six months of the year, when Afghan and US forces killed more civilians. | |
| The UN's data, which was released on Thursday, also revealed that 41% of all those killed since January were women and children. |