The interior ministry said on Friday that the number of people killed in a militant attack on a Shi’ite Muslim gathering in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has risen to eleven, up from an earlier estimate of three.
Nasrat Rahimi, spokesman for the ministry, said in a statement 95 people were wounded in what officials initially described as a rocket attack.
Rahimi said the Taliban planned the attack. On Thursday, the Islamic State militant group said it was responsible.
Militants fired mortar bombs at the gathering on Thursday, a commemoration on the anniversary of the death of a leader of the Hazara ethnic minority.
Hundreds of people including top government officials such as Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah and at least three candidates for a July presidential election were at the event.
