A bomb ripped by means of a memorial service in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province on Thursday, killing a minimum of 11 individuals, officers mentioned.
A former Taliban police official was amongst these killed and greater than 30 have been additionally wounded within the explosion close to Nabawi Mosque, in keeping with Abdul Nafi Takor, the Taliban-appointed spokesman for the inside ministry.
“There have been issues that the variety of casualties might rise additional as extra info turns into out there,” Takor added.
The bombing apparently focused the memorial service for Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, the deputy governor of Badakhshan who was killed in a automobile bombing on Tuesday. That assault in Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan, additionally killed the deputy governor’s driver and wounded 10 different individuals.
Moazuddin Ahmadi, the Taliban official in control of info and tradition, confirmed Thursday’s explosion and the killing of Safiullah Samim, a former Taliban police chief in Baghlan.
There was no speedy declare of duty for Thursday’s assault. The Islamic State group a high rival of the Taliban has claimed duty for the automobile bombing on Tuesday.
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the assault, saying in a tweet that the bombing of mosques is an act of terrorism and goes in opposition to human and Islamic requirements.
A number of senior Taliban officers attended Ahmadi’s funeral, which happened on Wednesday, together with a whole lot of residents of Faizabad.
The Taliban chief of the army, Fasihuddin Fitrat, denounced the IS assaults in Badakhshan and requested individuals to cooperate with Taliban safety forces and report suspicious actions of their areas.
In December, a automobile bombing killed Badakhshan’s provincial police chief as he was on his approach to work. The IS regional affiliate often called the Islamic State in Khorasan Province mentioned on the time that it had carried out that assault. IS mentioned it had parked an explosive-laden automobile on the street and detonated it when the police chief was shut by.
