Bomber blew himself up after being halted from getting to the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing in Kabul. The Taliban government has stated that one individual was killed and three people injured when a suicide attacker detonated explosives near a government structure in the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul.
The attacker tried to enter the Afghan Ministry of Urban Development and Housing building in Kabul on Thursday but was fired upon by security forces, Interior Ministry Spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said on Thursday. A Kabul Emergency Hospital doctor, who requested anonymity, told AFP news agency that the wounded were taken to the hospital for treatment following the blast.
It attacked a section of the city that is densely populated and has government departments, as well as foreign missions such as the United States embassy, which has been deserted since American and NATO foreign troops withdrew from the nation in 2021.
The US-led NATO troops’ pullout occurred 20 years after the country had been invaded with military force to oust the Taliban militant group from power. The invasion had followed allegations of the Taliban allowing al-Qaeda operatives, suspected to have orchestrated the fatal 9/11 terror attacks on US soil, to seek refuge there.
The Taliban, who fought a militant insurgency over the years, captured the nation in 2021 and vowed to bring order back to the war-torn country. Yet violence has not stopped, much of it perpetrated by the group’s local arm ISIL (ISIS).
This attack is the second this week following a suicide bombing that killed at least five individuals when a bomber detonated explosives attached to his body outside a bank in northeastern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
ISIL has conducted numerous attacks since the Taliban takeover. In December, the group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed the Taliban government’s refugee minister, Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani, in his Kabul office.
