A blast hit an artistic centre during an event for intelligencers in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding eight, according to authorities and intelligencers, a many days after the fiefdom’s governor died in an explosion claimed by Islamic State. “Moment, at 11.30 a.m. an explosion passed at the Tabyan Cultural Centre, in the alternate police quarter of Mazar-i-Sharif in Balkh fiefdom the explosion happened due to a mine,” said Abdul Nafi Takor, prophet for the Taliban administration’s Ministry of Interior.
Sajad Mosawi, an intelligencer in Balkh who was injured in the blast, said it had torn through the centre during an event to celebrate intelligence. Taliban authorities were formerly probing the explosion that killed parochial governor Mawlawi Mohammad Dawood Muzamil and two others at his office. The governor of Afghanistan’s southern fiefdom of Kandahar will temporarily run Balkh, his prophet Haji Zaid said, until Supreme Spiritual Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada selects a new governor for the northern fiefdom, an important trade mecca with Central Asia.
An intelligencer grounded in Balkh, Mohammad Fardin Nowrozi, told the Reuters news agency that he and other intelligencers were injured in the explosion, but didn’t give further details. Wounded intelligencers also included Najeeb Faryad, a journalist for Ariana News TV station, who said he felt like a commodity hit him in the reverse, followed by a blaring sound before he fell to the ground, according to the Associated Press news agency. No one has incontinently claimed responsibility for the attack, but the indigenous chapter of the ISIL (ISIS) group is a crucial rival of the Taliban. The group has increased its attacks in Afghanistan since the Taliban preemption of the country in August 2021.
Targets have included Taliban details and members of Afghanistan’s Shia nonage. The governor of Afghanistan’s southern fiefdom of Kandahar will temporarily run Balkh, his prophet Haji Zaid told Reuters, until Supreme Spiritual Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada selects a new governor for the northern fiefdom, an important trade mecca with Central Asia.