It remains to be revealed whether the school is either Sufi or Hazara Shiite, the usual targets for such attacks in recent years, usually at the hands of ISIS.
[KhaamaPress] According to the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...’s security officials, eight people were maimed on Saturday when person or persons unknown threw a hand grenade into a religious seminary in 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, in eastern Afghanistan.
The grenade explosion targeted an Islamic religious school called Zunoorain Usman, in Nangarhar province’s Rodat district, about 25 kilometers from Jalalabad city, the scenic provincial capital.
The injured have been sent to the nearby hospital, according to the security officials. One of them reportedly has a critical health condition.
Although no one has been arrested in relation to this attack, according to security officials, investigations have been undertaken to identify those responsible.
No one has grabbed credit for the attack. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
snuffies are present and active throughout the country, primarily in the east, and often target Taliban forces and religious minorities.
The attack on the religious school in the eastern region of Afghanistan came at a time when religious scholars from across the country assembled in Kabul for the Taliban’s 3-day grand gathering which concluded today, Saturday, 2nd July.