TWO WOUNDED IN KABUL EXPLOSION AS TALIBAN LAUNCH OPERATION AGAINST ISIS-K

Mon 15 November 2021:

An explosion shook Kabul’s western area of Kote Sangi on Monday after a magnetic IED, attached to a vehicle, was detonated.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s interior ministry confirmed the explosion had been caused by a magnetic IED and said two people, a man and a woman, had been wounded. He gave no further details.

This comes just two days after a similar explosion that was claimed by ISIS-K (Daesh).

A similar magnetic bomb had destroyed a minibus in western Kabul on Saturday, killing and wounding several people.

Meanwhile, Taliban have launched a crackdown on suspected Daesh hideouts in southern Afghanistan, officials said Monday, following an increase in bloody attacks by the group in recent weeks.

The operation against Daesh-Khorasan Province (Daesh-K) – the local chapter of the terrorist group – started around midnight in at least four districts of Kandahar province and continued through Monday morning.

In the three months since the Taliban came to power, Daesh-K has been active in Jalalabad, Kunduz, Kandahar and Kabul.

Last month the group claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in Kandahar that killed at least 60 people and injured scores more. That attack came a week after another deadly mosque blast claimed by Daesh-K in northern Kunduz province killed more than 60 people.

FILE PHOTO: A local transport ‘minivan’ has been exploded in the Dasht-e Barchi area of Kabul, on Saturday.

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