Kabul, Sep 2 (EFE).- At least six civilians were killed and thirteen others injured in a suicide attack in Kabul on Monday, Taliban government sources said.
“This afternoon on the Darul Aman highway in western Kabul, a suicide bomber and at least six of our compatriots were killed and 13 others were injured,” Mawlawi Zabiullah, spokesman for the capital’s Police District 6, told EFE.
The attack took place at a bus station “when people were waiting for one of the vehicles to arrive,” he added.
A spokesman for the capital’s police, Khalid Zadran, said the wounded had been taken to different hospitals in the city and added that authorities from the Taliban’s interim government had launched an investigation into the attack.
No insurgent group has yet claimed responsibility for the suicide attack.
The area of Kabul where the explosion took place is inhabited mainly by members of the Hazara ethnic minority, made up mainly of Shiite Muslims, who have been the target of numerous attacks claimed by the Islamic State of Khorasan, the Afghan branch of IS.
In the past three years, since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, attacks by the Sunni Islamist group have targeted the security forces of the fundamentalists, the Shiite Hazara minority and places of worship and schools of Sufi communities.
One person was killed and 11 others injured on August 12 when a bomb attached to a passenger vehicle exploded in the Dasth-e-Barchi area of Kabul, a town inhabited by the Hazara minority.
On March 21, another 23 people were killed and 60 injured in a suicide attack at the Kabul Bank in the city of Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, while Taliban government employees were queuing to collect their salaries. EFE
