KABUL: ISIS has claimed responsibility for the twin blasts in the Afghancapital Kabul killed 25 people on Monday, including journalists who hadarrived to report on the first explosion and who were apparently targetedby a suicide bomber in a second attack, officials said.
The Afghan Journalists Safety Committee said seven journalists had beenkilled and French news agency Agence France-Presse confirmed that its chiefphotographer in Afghanistan, Shah Marai, was among the dead. A Reutersphotographer was slightly wounded.
Najib Danish, spokesman for the interior ministry, said the suicide bomberappeared to have posed as a journalist and blew himself up where reportersand emergency health officials were standing.
The attack came a week after 60 people were killed as they waited at avoter registration center in the west of Kabul, underlining the continuinginsecurity in the capital despite official pledges to tighten defenses.
Hashmat Stanakzai, a senior Kabul police official, said 25 people werekilled and 49 were seriously wounded.