NRF Claims Responsibility For Explosion At Taliban Headquarters In Panjshir

The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) claimed responsibility for an explosion at a Taliban base in Dara district of Panjshir province on Friday evening, October 4.

The front said in a statement that 13 Taliban members had been killed and two others were wounded in the attack.

"The attack was carried out at 6:25pm on Friday by the forces of the National Resistance Front on the headquarters of the third Battalion of the Fourth Brigade, a special unit of the Ministry of Defence of the Taliban in the village of Mohammad Baig Khel," the statement said.

The National Resistance Front called the attack "one of the most deadly attacks by the National Resistance Front forces against the Taliban in recent months”.

On Friday evening, residents of Panjshir reported a relatively powerful explosion in Dara district to Afghanistan International. Local sources said that after the explosion, the Taliban closed the area and evacuated the victims of the explosion with ambulances.

Abdullah Farooqi, a spokesman for the Taliban's police command in Panjshir, said that a gas balloon exploded in a guesthouse, injuring six people in the incident.

The injured were rushed to medical centres and are in critical condition, he said. He wrote on the social media network X that the explosion did not cause any financial damage.