At least 16 people were killed and 24 injured yesterday in an explosion at a religious school in the northern Afghan city of Aybak, a medical source said. the victims were children or ordinary citizens.
In addition, at least three people were killed and 23 injured Wednesday in a suicide attack on a police truck in western Pakistan claimed by the Pakistani Taliban. A fragile ceasefire reached with the government in June ordered its militants to launch attacks. across the country. A senior police officer in Quetta, Azhar Mahasir, told AFP: “The explosion occurred in a police truck that was preparing to accompany a vaccination team in Quetta city, referring to the killing of ‘a policeman, a woman and a child.’
And the Pakistani Taliban announced in a statement that the militant had detonated a car bomb near a customs center in retaliation for the killing of founding member Omar Khaled Khorasani during the truce, and the statement added, “Our revenge operations will continue.”
The Pakistani Taliban was founded in 2007 by Pakistani jihadists who fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan in the 1990s before turning against Islamabad’s support for the Americans after they invaded the neighboring country in 2001.
