KABUL: Outlawed terrorist group, Daesh has claimed responsibility for a bombing on a minibus that killed one person and injured 11 in a Shiite-dominated neighborhood of Kabul.
The group on its Telegram channel said that “one Shiite was killed in a bombing by Caliphate soldiers in the Afghan capital.”
Kabul police on Sunday said the blast took place in a western Kabul neighborhood which is home to many Shiite Muslims.
Emergency NGO, an Italian nongovernmental organization which operates a hospital in Kabul, in a statement on social media platform X said that it had received eight people injured in the blast, with seven in need of surgery and one in critical condition.
The number of deadly bomb blasts and suicide attacks in Afghanistan has come down since the Taliban stopped their insurgency after seizing power in August 2021. However, a number of armed groups, including Daesh-Khorasan, have remained a threat.
Daesh-Khorasan, or Daesh-K, is the group’s Afghanistan branch. The group also claimed responsibility for an attack targeting tourists in Afghanistan in May that killed six people, including three foreigners.
It has also claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in Moscow that killed 145 people.
A UN counter-terrorism official this month warned that Daesh-K poses a major terrorist threat to Europe, having “improved its financial and logistical capabilities in the past six months.”
Chief Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the concerns raised were driven by propaganda and that the group had been weakened in Afghanistan.
“The Islamic Emirate (of Afghanistan) does not allow anyone to use Afghan soil against the security of any other country or to pose threats from Afghanistan,” he wrote on X.
