At least five people were injured Wednesday when a bomb exploded as a vehicle carrying several prisoners passed by in the northern Afghan province of Tajar, Taliban officials confirmed.
Sources quoted by the Afghan news agency Jaama Press said that the incident took place in front of a court in the town of Taleqan, the provincial capital, before adding that two vehicles used by the Taliban were destroyed by the blast.
The provincial police chief said that the authorities have opened an investigation into the incident, with no claim of responsibility for the attack so far.
On the other hand, the intelligence agency in the province of Herat (northwest) has announced the death of five suspected members of the Islamic State jihadist group in an operation carried out on Tuesday night by security forces.
Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), which considers the Taliban as traitors to the orthodoxy of the ‘sharia’ or Islamic law and defends a much harsher interpretation, has been the target of a security campaign by the Taliban in view of their attacks in the Central Asian country.
