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Afghanistan
Suicide attack in Kabul leaves six civilians dead
2017-12-26
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An kaboom rocked Kabul city earlier today after a suicide detonated his explosives close to a security compound.

Security sources are saying the incident has taken place in Shash Darak area of the city.

A front man for the ministry of interior Najib Danish confirmed that six people were killed and a number of others were maimed in the suicide kaboom in Shash Darak area of the city.

He said the target of the jacket wallah has not been ascertained so far as he detonated his explosives near a roadside and the victims are all civilians.

Eyewitnesses in the area had earlier said the kaboom was triggered by a suicide attack close to a compound belonging to the intelligence agency.

The ministry of public health officials had earlier said at least three people were killed in the kaboom and a number of others have sustained injuries.

Islamic State claims responsibility for blast in Afghan capital, Kabul

[Ynet] Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
grabbed credit for an kaboom on Monday carried by a jacket wallah near a compound of Afghanistan's national intelligence agency in the capital, Kabul, the group said on its Amaq news agency.

The blast, close to the entrance of the security agency compound, killed at least three people and maimed one, Afghan government officials said.
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