Afghan males stroll close to the positioning a day after a suicide bomber detonated explosives in entrance of the Basic Directorate for Monitoring and Following Up on Decrees and Directives, in Kabul, on September 3, 2024. | Picture credit score: AFP
The Islamic State (IS) group claimed duty on Tuesday (3 September 2024) for this week’s suicide bombing at a prosecutor’s workplace in Kabul that killed not less than six individuals and injured 13.
The group stated in a press release on its Amaq media outlet that the attacker detonated his explosives-laden vest on Monday (2 September 2024) as investigators and different staff have been leaving work, in an assault to avenge individuals detained in prisons run by the nation’s Taliban authorities.
IS claimed the blast killed 45 individuals, a a lot larger toll than the six deaths reported by Taliban officers on Monday (2 September 2024) following the explosion within the Qala Bakhtiar neighbourhood within the southwest of the capital. Taliban authorities officers weren’t instantly out there to touch upon IS’s declare.
After the blast, Taliban safety forces cordoned off the realm, stopping journalists and others from approaching the positioning.
Extremists in Afghanistan have stepped up their assaults because the Taliban took management of the nation in 2021. Targets embody Taliban patrols and members of the nation’s Shia minority.
Six of the lads injured in Monday’s blast have been taken to a surgical centre in Kabul run by the humanitarian group Emergency NGO, the place two of them needed to endure main surgical procedure, the group’s director Dejan Panic stated.