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Kabul: A suicide attack claimed by the ISIS terrorist group near Afghanistan’s foreign ministry killed six civilians and wounded several others, the interior ministry said.
On Monday, Afghan forces identified the attacker and shot at him in front of Dawoodzai business center near the foreign ministry, interior ministry spokesman Abdul Nafy Takor tweeted.
“With his killing, the explosives carried by the attacker also exploded which killed six civilians and wounded a number of others,” he said.
IS later claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on Amaq, the terrorist group’s news channel in Telegram.
The emergency hospital in Kabul, confirmed it had received two dead and 12 wounded, including a child.
Monday’s blast was the second attack near the foreign ministry in Kabul in less than three months, and the first since the holy month of Ramadan began on Thursday in Afghanistan.
On January 11, a suicide bomber blew himself up near the foreign ministry, killing 10 and wounding 53 people, according to the United Nations.
The group has increasingly become a major challenge, killing and wounding hundreds of people in several attacks, some targeting foreigners or foreign interests in a bid to undermine the Afghan government.
