KABUL, Afghanistan: Separate bomb and gun attacks on Sunday left at leastthree dead in Afghanistan’s capital, local police said, a day after abarrage of mortar shells shook the city.A sticky bomb attached to an armored vehicle in northern Kabul killed two,and wounded at least two others, according to Ferdaws Faramarz, a spokesmanfor the Kabul police chief. No further details were immediately available.
Faramarz also said that an Afghan government prosecutor was shot dead ineastern Kabul. The prosecutor was on his way to his office when he wasattacked in Kart-e Now neighborhood, the police spokesman said.No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks in Kabul. TheIslamic Sate group has claimed responsibility for multiple attacks on thecapital in recent months, including horrific attacks on educationalinstitutions that killed as many as 50 people, most of them students.
The Sunday attacks happened as a day earlier the Daesh militants hit thecapital with a barrage of mortar shells, killing at least one civilian andwounding a second, amid a countrywide spike in violence.
The extremist group claimed responsibility on its affiliated Amaq Newssite, saying it fired 10 Katyusha rockets toward the capital’s Hamid KarzaiInternational Airport.
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Three shells hit the airport, while the other rounds landed in residentialareas of the city, according to the Afghan Interior Ministry.Violence in Afghanistan has spiked in recent months even as the Taliban andAfghan government negotiators meet in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar tohammer out a peace deal that could put an end to decades of war.The Taliban have waged bitter battles against IS fighters, particularly inIS strongholds in eastern Afghanistan.
Courtesy: Arab News
