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The powerful blast occurred in a Shiite mosque in Kunduz province during the weekly Friday prayer service.
Scores more victims from the minority community were wounded in Friday's blast, which was claimed by the Daesh group and appeared designed to further destabilise Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover.
Since Taliban fighters seized control of Afghanistan last year after ousting the US-backed government, the number of bombings has fallen but the extremist Daesh has continued with attacks against targets they see as heretical.
Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has struck a civilian vehicle going to a wedding, killing at least 15 people, almost all of them women and young girls.
Taliban insurgents on Saturday launched a multi-pronged attack on Kunduz, a strategically important city in northern Afghanistan that has come under frequent assault since 2015.