Taliban authorities in Afghanistan reported Tuesday that a suicide bomber detonated himself at the entrance to a bank in the northern city of Kunduze, killing at least five people and injuring many others, Report informs via VoA.
Jumaddin Khaksar, a spokesperson for the area police, confirmed the casualties to VOA by phone, saying the early morning powerful blast ripped through a crowd waiting outside the Kabul bank branch to collect their salaries. He added that Afghan civilians and Taliban members were among the victims.
The Taliban-led Interior Ministry in the Afghan capital, Kabul, described the casualty figures as preliminary and promised to share more details later.
Multiple local sources in Kunduz, the capital of the province of the same name, reported a significantly higher death toll.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing, but suspicions pointed to Islamic State-Khorasan, or IS-K, an Afghanistan-based affiliate of the self-proclaimed transnational Islamic State terrorist network.
