Five people injured after a bomb exploded by a prisoner transfer vehicle in Afghanistan

November 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least five people have been injured this Wednesday due to the explosion of a bomb at the passage of a vehicle that was transporting several prisoners in the Afghan province of Tajar (north), as confirmed by the Taliban authorities.

Sources cited by the Afghan news agency Jaama Press have indicated that the event took place in front of a court in the town of Taleqan, the provincial capital, before adding that two vehicles used by the Taliban have been destroyed by the explosion.

The chief of the provincial Police has indicated that the authorities have opened an investigation into the event, without for the moment there being any claim of responsibility for the attack.

On the other hand, the intelligence agency in the province of Herat (northwest) has announced the death of five presumed members of the Islamic State jihadist group in an operation carried out on Tuesday night by security forces.

Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), which considers the Taliban traitors to the orthodoxy of ‘sharia’ or Islamic law and defends a much harsher interpretation, has been the target of a security campaign by the Taliban before its attacks in the Central Asian country.