An explosion in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, has killed a minimum of six folks, the police and Ministry of Inside Affairs say.
“This afternoon, an individual carrying explosives on his physique detonated,” Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran posted on X on Monday.
“Sadly six civilians, together with a girl, have been killed and 13 others have been injured,” he added.
Zadran mentioned the assault passed off within the Qala-e-Bakhtiar space of southern Kabul, including that an investigation is underneath method.
No group has claimed duty thus far.
Violence has waned in Afghanistan because the 2021 Taliban takeover, which ended a two-decade conflict that included international forces.
However the ISIL (ISIS) affiliate in Khorasan Province stays energetic and has frequently focused civilians, foreigners and Taliban officers with gun and bomb assaults. The group is the most important safety risk in Afghanistan and has regularly additionally focused Shia communities.
Probably the most infamous ISIL-linked assault because the Taliban takeover was in 2022 when a minimum of 53 folks – together with 46 ladies and younger girls – have been slain in a suicide bombing at an schooling 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 instructed the AFP information company final month that ISIL “existed” within the nation earlier than however the Taliban “suppressed them very arduous”.
“No such teams exist right here that may pose a risk to anybody,” he mentioned.