KUNDUZ: Over 50 people were killed and over 100 others injured as a deadly bomb blast targeted a mosque in Afghanistan’s Kunduz city on Friday.

Interior Ministry Spokesman Qari Sayed Khosti confirmed the blast to a foreign news agency, without giving details. Local residents told that the blast hit the mosque during the Friday prayers. No group immediately claimed responsibility.

This afternoon, an explosion took place in a mosque of our Shi’ite compatriots … as a result of which a number of our compatriots were martyred and wounded, Taliban Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter, adding that a special unit was arriving at the scene to investigate.

“We have received more than 90 wounded patients and over 15 dead bodies [at a hospital in Kunduz city], but the number will change. We are still receiving more people,” said a Doctors Without Borders worker, who did not want to be named, told a foreign news agency.

Initial information indicates more than 100 people killed and injured in a suicide blast inside the mosque, the United Nations’ mission to Afghanistan said in a tweet.

A medical source at the Kunduz Provincial Hospital said that 35 dead and more than 50 wounded had been taken there, while a worker at a Doctors Without Borders hospital reported 15 dead and scores more wounded.