{"id":42511,"date":"2024-07-17T14:11:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T09:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=42511"},"modified":"2024-07-17T14:11:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T09:11:26","slug":"islamic-state-claims-responsibility-for-deadly-shooting-in-shiite-mosque-in-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-for-deadly-shooting-in-shiite-mosque-in-oman\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly shooting in Shiite mosque in Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUSCAT: The Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for an attack on the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/two-pakistanis-among-four-killed-in-shooting-near-mosque-in-oman\/\">Shiite Muslim mosque<\/a> in Oman&#8217;s capital of Muscat which left at least nine people dead, including three terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Six people including four Pakistanis, one Indian, and an Omani official were killed in a shooting incident on Monday evening at the Ali bin Abi Talib mosque in the Wadi al-Kabir neighborhood of Oman\u2019s capital Muscat, a rare security breach in one of the most peaceful countries in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The Oman police said 28 people of various nationalities were wounded, including security personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Islamic State, the Sunni Muslim-dominated militant group said, three of its suicide attackers were behind the shootings that targeted &#8220;Shiites practicing their annual rituals&#8221; on the occasion of the holy mourning period of Ashura.<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s propaganda channel Aamaq said on its Telegram channels that IS fighters &#8220;opened fire with machine guns on Shiite&#8221; worshippers, before clashing with Omani security forces.<\/p>\n<p>The group also published what it said was a video of the attack on its Telegram site.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan said, \u201c<span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Four Pakistanis were martyred as a result of gunshots in the dastardly terrorist attack on the Ali bin Abi Talib mosque in Wadi Kabeer area in Muscat, Oman.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the latest information received from the Omani authorities, four Pakistanis were martyred as a result of gunshots in the dastardly terrorist attack on the Ali bin Abi Talib mosque in Wadi Kabeer area in Muscat, Oman,\u201d the FO said in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUSCAT: The Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for an attack on the Shiite Muslim mosque in Oman&#8217;s capital of Muscat which left at least nine people dead, including three terrorists. Six people including four Pakistanis, one Indian, and an Omani official were killed in a shooting incident on Monday evening at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":42512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19730],"class_list":["post-42511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-oman-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42513,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42511\/revisions\/42513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}