KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing on a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan that killed 47 people and wounded scores more.
Relatives laid the bodies of the victims to rest Saturday and called on the Taliban to protect them.IS said in a statement posted late Friday on social media that two of the group's members shot and killed security guards manning the entrance of the Fatimiya mosque in Kandahar province.One detonated his explosives at the entrance of the mosque and the other inside.RELATED: Suicide attack at mosque in Afghanistan's Kandahar province kills 47IS’s news agency Amaq in a statement gave the names of the attackers as Anas al-Khurasani and Abu Ali al-Baluchi,.