A police spokesman in Herat, the Afghan city where the attack took place, indicated that the attack was caused by a mine attached to a vehicle.
At least seven people died, including four women, and nine others were injured on Saturday afternoon after the detonation of an explosive installed in a vehicle in the city of Herat, in northwestern Afghanistan.
The explosion took place in the area of Haji Abass, located in the northwest of Herat, around 14:10 GMT (09:10 in Ecuador) when a mine installed in a vehicle exploded.
As a result, “seven bodies, including four women, and nine wounded have been taken to the hospital,” the head of the Herat regional hospital, Mohammad Arif Jalili, told Efe.
For his part, the Herat Police spokesman, Shah Mohammod Rasoli, told Efe that the attack was caused by a mine attached to a vehicle “which caused casualties among our compatriots”.
“The security forces have arrived in the area and investigations have begun” to clarify the facts, he added.
Afghanistan: how al Qaeda, the Taliban and the Islamic State differ
For the moment, no terrorist group or organization has claimed responsibility for this attack, although in recent months the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for several of the attacks perpetrated in the country that targeted the Shiite Hazara minority, whom they consider to be apostates.
History of attacks
Some of the deadliest occurred in October on two consecutive Fridays, with suicide bombings against Shiite mosques in the northern province of Kunduz and the southern province of Kandahar, leaving at least 80 and 60 dead, respectively, and more than a hundred wounded.
The last of his attacks was recorded on December 10, in which at least two people lost their lives and four others were injured in a double bomb attack against two passenger vans in Kabul in a neighborhood of the Shiite Hazara minority.
The jihadist group has multiplied its attacks in Afghanistan since the final withdrawal of US troops from the country shortly before midnight on August 31., the largest of which was the attack on the Kabul airport that on August 26 caused some 170 deaths.
The Taliban have launched a series of operations across much of the country against IS in which dozens of jihadists have been killed or arrested in at least eight of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces. (I)
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