Fatemah Qaderyan, 14, a member of the Afghan girls' robotics team that gained notoriety after competing in the U.S. last month, is grieving the loss of her father who died in an ISIS-claimed terrorist attack, the team’s coach said Thursday.
Qaderyan's father was killed when suicide bombers targeted a group of worshipers at a Shia mosque in the province of Herat in western Afghanistan on Tuesday evening, the team's director, Ali Reza Mehrban, told Al Jazeera Thursday morning.
More than 30 people were killed in the attack and more than 60 others were injured, authorities said. Witnesses said the site was packed with nearly 300 worshipers at the time of the attack.
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