Police say Taliban safety personnel have been amongst these killed within the as-yet unclaimed assault.
A bomb blast has killed a minimum of 5 individuals and wounded seven in northeastern Afghanistan, native police report.
The blast occurred at 8:35am (04:05 GMT) on Tuesday close to a Kabul Financial institution department in Kunduz province. No group has claimed accountability for the blast but.
The financial institution’s safety guard and 4 others, together with civilians and members of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban group, have been amongst these killed, police stated.
“A suicide bomber, who had improvised explosive gadgets, detonated himself,” Jumadin Khaksar, spokesman for Kunduz province police, famous.
“The Kunduz province police command is working with related organisations to search out the perpetrators of the incident and produce them to justice,” he added.
The variety of bomb blasts and suicide assaults in Afghanistan has markedly declined since the US withdrew its forces and the federal government it backed was ousted by the Taliban in August 2021.
Nevertheless, many armed teams – together with ISIL (ISIS) – stay a threat.
Dozens of individuals have been killed in a suicide bombing at a Shia mosque in Kunduz in October 2021, with the ISIL affiliate in Khorasan Province (ISKP) claiming accountability.
In March final yr, a suicide bomber killed a minimum of three individuals when he detonated a bomb exterior a financial institution within the southern metropolis of Kandahar, in an assault claimed by the regional chapter of the ISIL.
Regardless of the continued assaults, the Taliban authorities say they’ve largely crushed the group.
