Sunday, 19 August 2012 16:24
Armed insurgents opened fire Sunday morning, the first day of Eid, on worshippers attending a mosque in Afghanistan's eastern Kapisa province, local officials said.
Two insurgents were killed and one other was wounded in return fire from security personnel at the mosque, the media spokesman for the police 202 Shamshad zone told TOLOnews Sunday.
Local men from Kapisa had gathered for prayer at a mosque in the Mulayan area of Kapisa's Najrab distract on the first of the holy days of Eid when the gunmen opened fire.
None of the worshippers were harmed, but one of the security forces who returned fire was wounded, the spokesman said.
The spokesman declined to be named.
No group, including the Taliban, claimed responsibility for the gun attack.
TOLOnews.com