At least six civilians were killed, on Monday, in an attack near the Foreign Ministry in Kabul, which was claimed by the Islamic State, according to what was announced by the spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Interior, Abdul Nafi Thakur.
Abdul Nafi Thakur said on Twitter that the Afghan forces targeted the attacker, but the device he was carrying “exploded, killing six civilians and injuring others.”
The Islamic State later claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on the group’s Amaq website.
This attack is the first since the beginning of Ramadan. During this period last year, the country witnessed many attacks. This is the second time in less than three months that an attack occurred near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On January 11, a suicide attack in front of the entrance to the Foreign Ministry, claimed by the Islamic State, killed 10 people and wounded 53, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. On December 12, five Chinese nationals were injured in an attack by gunmen on a hotel in the Afghan capital where Chinese businessmen were staying.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for this attack, as well as the attack on the Pakistani embassy in Kabul in December, at which time Islamabad condemned what it considered an attempt to assassinate its ambassador.
Violence in various parts of Afghanistan has decreased significantly since the Taliban seized power, but the security situation has deteriorated again, with the Islamic State group adopting a number of bloody attacks.
