An explosive device killed one person and wounded three others in Kabul on Saturday evening, police in the Afghan capital announced. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State of Khorasan (EI-K) group.
“An adhesive bomb exploded under a minibus in the Kot-e-Sangi district of Kabul. The driver was killed and three other civilians wounded,” announced police spokesman Khalid Zadran late on Saturday.
“The police went to the scene and opened an investigation,” he added in a statement.
The EI-K group quickly claimed responsibility for the attack on Telegram, claiming to have “killed or wounded around ten” people in the attack on “a minibus crossing a Taliban checkpoint.”
The commercial district of Kot-e-Sangi is populated mainly by Shiite Hazaras, a community regularly targeted by the Sunni EI, which considers them heretics.
Although security has generally returned to Afghanistan since the return of the Taliban to power in August 2021, hundreds of people have since been killed or wounded in attacks often targeting civilians. Most of these attacks have been claimed by EI.
A month ago, EI claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in the heart of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, outside a bank crowded with civil servants and Taliban who had come to collect their salaries.
According to official sources, three people were killed in this suicide attack, but a hospital source gave AFP a much higher death toll of 20.
According to experts, the Taliban authorities generally play down the death toll from these deadly attacks, and quickly seal off and clear the scene.
With AFP
