SULAIMANI (ESTA) — The Islamic State (ISIS) terror group claimed responsibility for killing at least five people in a suicide bombing in Kabul on Wednesday.
A suicide bomber killed at least five people outside the Afghan foreign ministry, police said, and a nearby hospital said over 40 people were wounded.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, the militant group’s Amaq news agency said in an affiliated Telegram channel.
The bomber had planned to enter the foreign ministry but failed, said Ustad Fareedun, an official at the Taliban-run information ministry.
The United Nations and several countries, including Pakistan and the United Kingdom, condemned the attack.
“The UK rejects such senseless and indiscriminate acts of violence,” said Hugo Shorter, the charge d’affaires for the UK mission to Afghanistan.
