A bomb connected to a packed minivan exploded in Afghanistan’s western Herat province on Saturday, killing at the very least seven folks and wounding 9 others, Taliban officers stated.
Nobody instantly claimed accountability for the explosion, however the Islamic State has claimed credit score for related assaults on civilians and the nation’s new Taliban leaders elsewhere within the nation because the group seized energy on Aug. 15.
Saturday’s bombing was the primary such assault in Herat. Native Taliban official Naeemulhaq Haqqani stated investigations had been ongoing.
A Taliban intelligence official in western Herat instructed the Related Press that the bomb was connected to the van’s gas tank. He spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of he wasn’t approved to launch the knowledge to the general public.
Herat Ambulance chief Ebrahim Mohammadi stated the victims — three in vital situation — had been transferred to the provincial hospital.
Since their return to energy, the Taliban has imposed widespread restrictions, a lot of them directed at ladies.
The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan on Saturday referred to as on the Taliban to find two ladies rights activists — Tamana Zaryab Paryani and Parawana Ibrahimkhel — who disappeared on Wednesday from Kabul.
“We urge Taliban to supply info on their whereabouts & to guard rights of all Afghans,” UNAMA stated in a tweet Saturday. The Taliban has denied any involvement of their disappearance.
An eyewitness stated that at the very least 10 armed folks claiming to be Taliban intelligence members broke into an house Wednesday in Kabul and arrested Tamana Zaryab Paryani and her three sisters.
The ladies’s rights activist posted a video on social media shortly earlier than they had been taken away, displaying them frightened, breathless and screaming for assist. She stated that the Taliban was banging on her door.
Paryani was amongst about 25 ladies who took half in an anti-Taliban protest final weekend in opposition to the obligatory Islamic head scarf, or hijab, for ladies.
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