ISIS Claims Responsibility For Attack on Taliban Vehicle In Nangarhar

ISIS-K claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack on a Taliban vehicle in Dara-e-Noor District, Nangarhar Province.

The Taliban had earlier said that six students of a madrassa were killed in the attack, another student and four members of the group were wounded.

ISIS-affiliated Khilafa News Agency said in a statement on its Telegram channel that a bomb attack on a Taliban vehicle killed four members of the group and wounded four others.

Abdul Basir Zabuli, a spokesman for the Taliban's police command, announced in Nangarhar on Thursday that at least five students and a teacher of a religious school were killed in a bomb blast on the Taliban vehicle’s route in Dara-e-Noor district of the province, and another student was wounded along with four Taliban members.

A spokesman for the Taliban's police command in Nangarhar said that the students and their teachers were on their way to study in Dara-e-Noor district.

The Taliban's police command in Nangarhar did not comment on the deaths of four members of the group, but in a video obtained by Afghanistan International, a Taliban official said in response to another person's question that Taliban members were also among the victims.

In addition to this attack, ISIS has claimed responsibility for two other attacks on Pakistani troops in the Khyber and Bajaur areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which are located near the Afghan border.