Explosion takes place in southern Kabul space of Qala-e-Bakhtiar, and no group has claimed duty to this point.
An explosion in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, has killed at the least six folks, the police and Ministry of Inside Affairs say.
“This afternoon, an individual sporting explosives on his physique detonated,” Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran posted on X on Monday.
“Sadly six civilians, together with a lady, had been killed and 13 others had been injured,” he added.
Zadran mentioned the assault befell within the Qala-e-Bakhtiar space of southern Kabul, including that an investigation is underneath approach.
No group has claimed duty to this point.
Violence has waned in Afghanistan for the reason that 2021 Taliban takeover, which ended a two-decade battle that included international forces.
However the ISIL (ISIS) affiliate in Khorasan Province stays lively and has commonly focused civilians, foreigners and Taliban officers with gun and bomb assaults. The group is the biggest safety menace in Afghanistan and has incessantly additionally focused Shia communities.
Essentially the most infamous ISIL-linked assault for the reason that Taliban takeover was in 2022 when at the least 53 folks – together with 46 women and younger girls – had been slain in a suicide bombing at an training centre in a Shia neighbourhood of Kabul.
The final suicide assault in Afghanistan claimed by the regional chapter of ISIL was within the southern metropolis of Kandahar – the Taliban’s historic stronghold – in March.
Taliban authorities spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid advised the AFP information company final month that ISIL “existed” within the nation earlier than however the Taliban “suppressed them very laborious”.
“No such teams exist right here that may pose a menace to anybody,” he mentioned.
