KABUL – The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Tuesday said itraided a Daesh facility in Kabul’s PD5 on Tuesday and seized a large cacheof weapons and ammunition, TOLONEWS has reported.
The NDS said this house was used in the run up to the military academyattack on Monday – and was thought to have been used to plan the attack.
The facility is located in Qala-e-Wahid area in Kabul.
“There are RPGs, there is a suicide vest, each box in it has two kilogramsof explosives, each of them has eight kilograms weight,” said one NDSofficer.
A local representative for the area said a man and a woman had rented thehouse two weeks ago.
“They were a wife and husband,” Khawja Seddiq, the representative of thearea said.
“People are very disappointed, they don’t feel secure even walking to theshop, because every minute there is fear of suicide explosion,” a resident,Ansarullah, said.
“It shows the weakness of government’s intelligence apparatus,” anotherresident Noor-ul-Haq said.
NDS said the arrest of one Daesh insurgent during the attack on themilitary academy on Monday led to the discovery of the house.
Security forces have however carried out a number of operations in the samearea in the past.