Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Extremist group ISIS claiming to be the mastermind behind the bombing targeting members Taliban in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, at the end of last week.
ISIS Khorasan claimed the bomb through an announcement on their propaganda medium, Amaaq News Agency, on Sunday (19/9).
As reported Reuters, in the report, ISIS claimed to have killed dozens of Taliban members, but no one has been able to verify it.
“More than 35 Taliban members were killed or injured in the blast attack,” the ISIS statement said.
The Taliban also admitted that its members were the target of a number of bomb attacks in Jalalabad from Saturday to Sunday.
A source told Reuters that at least three people were killed and about 20 others injured in an explosion in Jalalabad on Saturday.
The series of explosions raises questions about security in Afghanistan after the Taliban took power in mid-August.
This is not the first time ISIS-K has acted after the Taliban came to power. In August, ISIS-K also carried out a suicide bombing attack at Kabul airport, as residents flocked to await evacuation.
After that, the Taliban claimed that they could contain ISIS-K if the US had left. But apparently, after the US left at the end of last August, ISIS-K can still target members of the Taliban.
“We think since the Taliban came, there will be peace,” said Feda Mohammad, one of the citizens whose brother was killed in the ISIS-K bombing last Sunday.
He then said, “However, now there is no peace. There is no security. You can hear nothing but the news of the bomb explosion that killed who.”
This ISIS bombing occurred when the Taliban were still trying to form a government. With this incomplete government, Afghanistan has to face various crises due to the freezing of foreign funds after the Taliban came to power.
“This is the culmination of our misery,” said a resident in Jalalabad, Abdullah.
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