By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-12-12 02:21:39 | Updated at 2024-12-12 04:49:33
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Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed Afghanistan’s minister for refugees at his office in Kabul, jihadist monitor SITE said.
Taliban authorities had already blamed Isis for the “cowardly attack”, which a government official said had killed minister Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani and a number of his colleagues on Wednesday.
The explosion – the first attack targeting a minister since the Taliban returned to power in 2021 – was caused by a suicide blast.
Isis issued a photo of the fighter it said was behind the bombing, writing that he detonated an explosive vest after he “penetrated the security barriers inside the headquarters”, according to a statement on its Amaq news agency, as translated by the SITE.
Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid paid tribute to the minister, saluting a “great fighter” who “fell as a martyr”.
