IS claims responsibility for deadly attack near Afghan ministry

Islamic State claimed on its Telegram account its responsibility for the suicide attack that killed at least six civilians in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on March 27, Reuters reports.

Police had said that the attack occurred near a security checkpoint leading to the foreign ministry, the report added.

The UN mission in Afghanistan condemned the continuous targeting of ordinary Afghans.

“Reports of numerous casualties in today’s [March 27] attack in Kabul - at least one child among them. It is unacceptable that ordinary Afghans continue to be targeted as they go about their daily lives," United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in a tweet.

This latest blast was the second attack near the foreign ministry in less than three months, and the first since the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began on March 23 in Afghanistan.

Earlier in January, an IS attack near the ministry killed at least five people.

The Islamic State group has also claimed other recent attacks in Kabul, including a bombing near a checkpoint at the city’s military airport that killed several people.

The terrorist group also claimed responsibility for an assault on a Kabul hotel in December.