KABUL (SW) – Daesh or the so-called ISIS has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul on Monday.
The Amaq propaganda news agency affiliated with ISIS has announced that a suicide attack near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul was carried out by a member of this group.
This group has claimed that 20 people, including diplomats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were killed and wounded as a result of this attack.
Last evening, the interior ministry confirmed that a suicide attack near the foreign ministry killed at least six civilians and wounded several others on Monday.
The attacker was targeted by Afghan forces but the explosives he carried detonated and “killed six civilians and wounded a number of others”, ministry spokesman Abdul Nafy Takor tweeted on Monday.
It is said that as a result of the explosion of explosives three soldiers of the Islamic Emirate were also injured.
The Ministry of Interior did not give any more details about this, but added that it will share more information about the incident with the media later.
Khalid Zadaran, the spokesman of the Kabul police command, also confirmed the incident and said that six people were killed and several others were injured in the incident.
A hospital run by an Italian NGO said it received some patients at its surgical centre in capital Kabul specialising in treating victims of Afghanistan’s long war.
A tweet from the NGO said at least one child was among the injured.
The cause of the blast was not immediately clear. No group has claimed responsibility so far.
Two witnesses told the Reuters news agency they heard the sound of a large explosion near the heavily fortified area that is home to several government buildings and foreign embassies.
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