Islamic State claims the attack that killed a senior police officer established by the Taliban in Afghanistan

Dec. 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The jihadist group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the car bomb attack carried out on Monday in front of the Afghan city of Faizabad, which resulted in the death of the police chief established by the Taliban in the northeast Badajshan province. from the country.

“A prominent leader of the Taliban apostate militia died along with other people,” the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) said in a statement published through its propaganda channels, adding that “thank Almighty God, caliphate soldiers were able to park and activate a car bomb” in front of the police station.

The death of the man, identified as Maulavi Abdulhaq Omar, was confirmed by sources quoted by the news portal Aamaj News and by the Afghan television channel Tolo TV, without the Taliban having reacted to the event for the moment. Sources cited by the Afghan newspaper ‘Hasht e Subh’ have raised the death toll to three.

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 in the face of its attacks.