Islamic State Attack Kills Provincial Police Chief in Afghanistan

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan stated Monday a automobile bomb killed a provincial police chief and his two guards.

The Islamic State terror group’s Afghan affiliate, IS-Khorasan, took duty for the bombing in Fayzabad, the capital of the northeastern Badakhshan province.

A spokesperson for the Taliban-led inside ministry within the Afghan capital, Kabul, instructed VOA the slain police official was touring to work when an explosives-laden automobile focused his car.

Abdul Nafi Takoor stated the following blast additionally injured two folks. He added that safety forces had taken 4 suspects into custody in reference to the assault and blamed so-called “enemies of Afghanistan” for being behind it, with out elaborating.

Badakhshan borders Pakistan, Tajikistan and China.

IS-Khorasan has intensified terrorist assaults in Afghanistan for the reason that Taliban reclaimed energy within the war-ravaged nation in August 2021. The violence has killed a whole bunch of individuals, together with Afghan minority Shiite group members and outstanding pro-Taliban clerics, in latest months.

The ruling Islamist group claims that its counterterrorism forces have considerably degraded the presence of IS-Khorasan in Afghanistan, however critics query these claims citing frequent high-profile assaults by the group in Kabul and past.