A suicide bombing in Kabul on Sunday against an administrative center issuing voter registration cards has left at least four people dead and 15 wounded, according to an initial assessment, AFP sources said.
“People were gathered to collect their tazkira (ID card), the explosion occurred at the entrance, he was a suicide bomber, there are victims, we do not yet know how many,” he said. Kabul Police Chief Dawood Amin.
“We have so far received four deaths and 15 wounded in Kabul hospitals,” said Health Ministry spokesman Waheed Majoreh.
The attack occurred in the west of the Afghan capital, in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi.
On Twitter, local residents report “many ambulances rushing on site”.
This is the first recorded attack in Kabul against a center preparing the electoral lists for the legislative elections of October 20 since the start of registration on April 14.
This week, three Electoral Commission (IEC) staff and two police officers were kidnapped in Ghor province (center) and released 48 hours later after the elders’ intervention.
Local officials accused the Taliban.
For IEC officials, insecurity is the main threat to the organization of elections.
The latest attack on the Afghan capital dates back to just one month, March 21, the first day of the Persian New Year: it had more than thirty dead and at least 70 wounded.
IS had claimed responsibility for the operation by a walking suicide bomber.
