At least two people were killed in a bomb attack in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, authorities said.
Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said in a message posted on Twitter that the attack was caused by explosives placed in a car in the north of the capital.
Sunday’s explosion follows a attack on a sikh temple in Kabul on Saturday, which killed at least two people.
Around 200 Sikhs currently live in Afghanistan, an almost completely Muslim country.whose Sikh community numbered around half a million in the 1970s. The Afghan Sikh community has been the target of several attacks in recent years..
The armed extremist organization Islamic State had previously targeted minority Sikhs in a suicide attack in July 2018. in Jalalabad, in the east of the country, in which 19 people died.
Although the number of attacks has decreased in the country since the Taliban took power, in August 2021 there were a series of bomb attacks in late April and May, in which dozens of people were killed.
Most were claimed by the Islamic State.
The Taliban have intensified attacks against the extremist group, especially in the eastern province of Nangarhar, as a result of which they have arrested hundreds of people.
The Taliban claim that in recent months they have defeated the Islamic State, but analysts believe that organization remains the main security challenge for the new Afghan regime.
Source: Observadora
