 Twenty cars outside the mosque were incinerated and twenty-five nearby shops suffered damages from the attack.Imam Haidari went on to say "This attack was planned and carried out by sick souls", and that though he was not in the mosque at the time, his office and the room above collapsed in the explosion.Karim Abdullah an eyewitness who was headed to pray at the mosques reported "I stopped in shock as I saw the smoke and people on the ground.