The extremist group Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the attack in Kabul on Saturday that killed at least three people and wounded 21, hours after it claimed responsibility for another attack in the Afghan capital that left eight dead on Friday. .
“Soldiers of the caliphate detonated an explosive device in a concentration of infidels in Kabul,” the group said, quoted by the Efe news agency, on the Telegram platform.
The attack took place in a residential area in western Kabul inhabited mainly by the minority Shia Hazara population.
ISIS, made up of Sunnis, claimed to have killed 20 people in the attack, although Afghan authorities only count three dead and 21 wounded.
This is the second explosion in the same neighborhood in less than 24 hours, after a bomb exploded in a market on Friday afternoon, killing at least eight people and injuring 18 others, according to the latest report issued by La Puerta .- Taliban voice, Zabiullah Mujahid.
IS considers Shia apostates and frequently attacks them, especially in their places of worship.
On April 21, the extremist group claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a Shiite mosque, which killed 12 people and wounded 34 others, during the Ramadan period.
That same week, another six people were killed and 15 wounded in a bomb attack on schools belonging to the minority Shiite Hazara in western Kabul.
Since coming to power in August 2021, the Taliban have launched several operations against the Islamic State group in various parts of the country, in an attempt to show that their return to power has put an end to the violence in the country.
The guarantee of security and control of armed Islamic extremism was one of the main features of the Taliban’s governance in the territories under its control during the war with the deposed government and international forces.
Source: Observadora
