At least 14 killed after series of explosions rock Afghanistan, Taliban says
A collection of explosions shook Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Taliban stated, together with a blast inside a mosque within the capital of Kabul that killed at the least 5 worshippers and three bombings of minivans within the nation’s north that killed 9 passengers.
The Kabul Emergency Hospital stated it obtained 22 victims of the mosque bombing, together with 5 useless. There have been no additional particulars on the blast that struck the Hazrat Zakaria Mosque within the metropolis’s central Police District 4, in keeping with Khalid Zadran, a Taliban police spokesperson in Kabul.
“The blast passed off whereas individuals have been contained in the mosque for the night prayers,” Zadran stated, including that they have been ready for an replace.
The minivans have been focused within the northern metropolis of Mazar-e-Sharif after explosive units have been positioned contained in the autos, in keeping with Mohammad Asif Waziri, a Taliban-appointed spokesperson in Balkh province. He stated the explosions killed 9 and wounded 15.
All of the victims in Mazar-e-Sharif have been from the nation’s minority Shia Muslims, in keeping with a police official who spoke on situation of anonymity as he was not licensed to present particulars to the media.
Nobody instantly claimed duty for the explosions, however they’d the hallmarks of the regional affiliate of the Islamic State group, referred to as Islamic State in Khorasan Province, or IS-Okay.
The IS affiliate, which has been working in Afghanistan since 2014, is seen as the best safety problem dealing with the nation’s new Taliban rulers. Following their takeover once they seized energy in Kabul and elsewhere within the nation final August, the Taliban have launched a sweeping crackdown towards the IS headquarters in japanese Afghanistan.
