The Afghan minister for refugees was killed on Wednesday in a suicide bombing at the ministry’s offices in the capital Kabul, government sources said, with the Islamic State group claiming responsibility for the attack.
Taliban authorities had already blamed IS for the “cowardly attack”, which a government official told AFP had killed minister Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani and a number of his colleagues.
The official added that the explosion — the first attack targeting a minister since the Taliban returned to power in 2021 — was caused by a suicide blast.
IS issued a photo of the fighter it said was behind the bombing, writing that he detonated an explosive vest after he “penetrated the security barriers inside the headquarters”, according to a statement on its Amaq news agency, as translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.
