[Tolo News] On Friday, the Governor of Northern Panjshir province, Abdul Raman Kabiri, said that the Haqqani network was behind Thursday's suicide kaboom that killed 13 people and injured 14 others."The incident happened after the police stopped the attackers and asked them to come out from the car," Kabiri said. "This attack was carried out by the Taliban and Haqqani network."
He said the gunnies target was inside the province of Panjshir, but they failed.
Officials said the gunnies were four people who wore normal clothes and wanted to enter Panjshir with a wedding party.
It is not yet clear what areas they wanted to target in Panjshir, but they detonated the explosive in front of the main security gate of the province after being caught.
"I was near the scene when I heard a blast," Khalid, an eyewitness to the attack, said. "The coppers who were in charge of the area were either killed or injured in the attack."
Among the 13 confirmed dead, four were Afghan coppers. The families of the coppers who were killed said they are ready to sacrifice more to defend the country.
"We will continue living this way," Habib, a relative of an Afghan policeman who was killed, said. "If today we lost one of us, we are ready to send dozens of others to join the Afghan forces."