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2023-03-28 Afghanistan
At least six killed in explosion near Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs UPDATE: ISIS sez they dunnit
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] At least six people were killed and several others sustained injuries in a blast near Afghanistan’s ministry of foreign affairs on Monday, Afghani media reported.

"A blast happened on Foreign Ministry’s Road near the Daudzai Trade Center in downtown Kabul this afternoon, eyewitnesses said, describing it as a heavy explosion," tweeted Tolo News .

According to Kabul police spokesperson Khalid Zadran, "In Malik Asghar Square ... a suicide kaboomer before reaching the target was identified at a check point and killed, but his explosives detonated."

Khalid Zadran said several people were maimed, including three Taliban
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security force members.

He did not name the target, but the blast took place in a busy downtown area near a checkpoint that guards a heavily fortified street housing several government buildings, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Meanwhile,
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the Emergency NGO in Kabul said on Twitter that it has received 12 maimed from the blast near Foreign Ministry this afternoon while two other victims were already dead on arrival.

It added that one child is among those maimed in the earth-shattering kaboom.

No one has grabbed credit for the attack so far.
A detail from Tolo News:
“It was around 3:00pm. We were at the office of the deputy minister. A blast occurred, when we came out, the situation was bad. We saw wounded and martyrs,” said Omar, a witness.
Update from Khaama Press at 3:00 a.m. ET:
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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
claimed on its Telegram account its responsibility for the suicide kaboom that killed at least six civilians in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Monday, Rooters News Agency reported.

Moreover, IS-K published the details of a jacket wallah, saying that the attack was carried out by "Abdul Hameed Khorasani."

This is the second attack by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the first was in January that killed and maimed more than 20 people.

The attack came after the remarks of the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
’s Foreign Minister, Muttaqi, who claimed that the Islamic State does not have a presence in Afghanistan.
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