ISIL claims responsibility for deadly Kabul attack
Al Jazeera
The group said the blast targeted the Taliban’s prosecution service to ‘avenge Muslims’ held in its prisons.
The ISIS (ISIL) group has claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing in Kabul that killed at least six people.
In a Telegram post on Tuesday, ISIL said one of its members detonated an explosive vest in the Afghan capital the previous day, targeting the Taliban government’s prosecution service.
The bomber waited until government employees finished their shifts and then detonated the explosive in the middle of a crowd, the post said.
Thirteen people were wounded in the attack in Kabul’s southern Qala-e-Bakhtiar area, according to Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran.
ISIL, which put the casualties at “more than 45”, said the attack was revenge for “Muslims held in Taliban prisons”.
