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Bombs Kill at Least 3 in Eastern Afghanistan
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Witnesses said a series of three explosions that targeted Taliban
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vehicles in the capital of Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province has left at least three dead and 20 maimed,

No one immediately took responsibility for the attack Saturday in Jalalabad, but the increasingly violent mostly peaceful ISIS group affiliate is headquartered in eastern Afghanistan and are enemies of Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether Taliban officials were among the dead and maimed.

Also on Saturday a sticky bomb went kaboom! in the capital Kabul wounding two people, said police officials. The target of the Kabul bomb was not immediately clear.

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Bomb blasts in Afghanistan's ISIS-K heartland kills two and injures up to 20 more in first deadly attack since US and British troops withdrew

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Three explosions rocked the eastern provincial capital of Jalalabad on Saturday

  • The bomb blasts, targeting Taliban vehicles, killed two and injured up to 20 more

  • No immediate responsibility claim, but the blast happened in ISIS-K's heartland
Khaama Press adds:
Three consecutive explosions targeting rangers of the Taliban killed 2 and wounded 19 more among them women and children in Police District 5 of Jalalabad city of eastern Nangarhar province.

Health officials of the provincial hospital in Jalalabad city said that 21 wounded people have been rushed to the hospital among them two died due to severe injuries.

As per the local health officials, three of the victims were civilians, and the rests of them were Taliban fighters.

This was the first series of blasts in eastern Nangarhar province since the Taliban takeover.

Posted by: Fred 2021-09-19
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