At least 16 people were killed Wednesday in four bombings in Afghanistan, including three against minibuses in Mazar-i-Sharif (north), claimed by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, and others in the opposite area. Kabul, according to the authorities.
In Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan’s largest city in the north, “bombs were planted on three minibuses in different parts of the city,” Balkh provincial police spokesman Asif Waziri told AFP.
At least ten people were killed and about 15 others were injured, according to police and health services.
“Soldiers of the caliphate detonated two bombs placed on two buses (…) and then a third, placed on a third bus,” the IK said via Telegram.
According to Najibullah Tawana, a Balkh health official, the ten dead included three women.
In Kabul, a mosque bombing killed at least six people and injured 18 others, according to the capital’s police spokesman, Khalid Zandran.
The number of attacks in Afghanistan has dropped since the Taliban seized power in the country on August 15, but a series of deadly bombings that have killed dozens of people has hit the country since late April, the holy month of Ramadan.
Last night in Kabul, eyewitnesses saw several ambulances speeding to the scene of the blast, for which no one has claimed responsibility.
According to the Taliban government’s interior ministry, the bomb had been planted inside the mosque’s ventilation system.
For some of the deadliest attacks that hit the country in late April, the IK had also taken responsibility, targeting especially the Shiite minority of Khazars. IK jihadists consider Shiites heretics.
On April 28, again in Mazar-i-Sharif, bombings claimed responsibility by the ISIS targeted two minibuses carrying Shiites, killing nine people.
On April 21, a Shiite mosque in the same city was also bombed. Report: 12 dead and 58 wounded. In this case, too, the IC took responsibility.
The next day at least 36 people, including children, were killed in Kunduz (northeast) in another bomb attack this time on a Sunni mosque, where Sufis were praying during Friday prayers.
In Kabul, ten people were killed on April 29 in an explosion at a Sunni mosque after Friday prayers.
The Taliban are trying to downplay the threat posed by the so-called Islamic State in Khorasan (IKH), the local arm of the IK. They have been waging a ruthless war against this organization for years.
They multiplied the attacks, especially in the eastern province of Nangarhar, and arrested hundreds of men who allegedly belonged to his ranks.
They have been claiming for months that they have “defeated” the IKH, but analysts say the extremist organization continues to be the most important security challenge for the new regime in Afghanistan.
SOURCE: AMPE
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