A large explosion rocked a Shiites mosque in southern Afghanistan on Oct. 15, killing at least 33 people and wounding 73 others, the Taliban terrorist group said. “We are saddened to learn that an explosion took place in a mosque of the Shiite Brotherhood in the first district of Kandahar city in which a number of our compatriots were martyred and wounded,” Taliban spokesman Sayed Khosti said on Twitter. Information from eyewitnesses in Kandahar that was obtained by Reuters described the attackers as three suicide bombers, one of whom blew himself up at the entrance to the mosque with the two others detonating their devices inside the building. An Afghan health official gave figures of 33 dead and 73 wounded, but the official also noted that the final death and injury count could be higher. “We are overwhelmed,” a doctor at the city’s central Mirwais hospital told news agency AFP. “There …