Six people were killed and 13 others wounded on Monday in southwest Kabul after a man detonated an explosive belt, police in the Afghan capital said.
“On Monday afternoon, a person detonated an explosive belt in the Qala-e Bakhtiar area, killing 6, including a woman, and wounding 13 others,” police spokesman Khalid Zadran said on the X platform.
He added that the injured, whose condition he did not specify, were transferred to the hospital and an investigation was opened.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place in a crowded area in the afternoon.
Although security has generally stabilized in Afghanistan with the return of Taliban movement To power 3 years ago, the country is still witnessing sporadic attacksIslamic State.
Pictures circulating on social media showed dismembered bodies lying in pools of blood.
In one of these photos, he appears with traces of an explosion in his chest, and he is likely the perpetrator of the suicide operation.
The last attack claimed by ISIS in Afghanistan took place on March 21 in Kandahar (south), the historical stronghold of the Taliban movement, and resulted in the deaths of 3 people, according to an official tally.
A source at a hospital in the city reported at the time that 20 people were killed among the men who were in front of a bank.
In mid-August, ISIS claimed responsibility for a bomb attack that killed at least one person and wounded dozens in a Kabul neighborhood.
