KABUL (SW) – A five-member joint group of the pro-Daesh and the Haqqani Network militants has been busted in Kabul, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) announced on Sunday.
It said in a statement the gang members were taken into custody from the 17th district of Kabul. The NDS newsletter named the militants as Javid, Ahmad Morid, Ruhollah, Abdul Hafiz and Abdul Jabbar, who are charged to be responsible for launching rockets on the anniversary of the assassination of Abdul Ali Mazari as well as attacking the Hamid Karzai International Airport and the Bagram Airfield.
The NDS said to have traced other urban cells of the terrorists, and vowed to soon target them.
Three years back, a ceremony marking death anniversary of the assassination of Abdul Ali Mazari (martyr of Afghan National Unity) in Kabul was targeted with multiple rockets. At least 11 civilians were killed and 95 others were injured in that attack.
A year later, the same event was attacked again in which 32 people were killed and 81 others were wounded.
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