Those attacks killed at least seven people and wounded 17 others. According to the New York Times, the attacks came a day after two rural northern districts fell to the Taliban, expanding the militant group’s control over territory in Afghanistan.
The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the attack on the Kabul police station, while the Taliban said it had carried out the strike near the Asian Development Bank.
In the first incident in western Kabul, assailants hurled hand grenades and blew themselves up, setting part of the police station on fire. The second attack unfolded in the city centre, where a suicide bomber struck the entrance to a police station in order to clear the way for another four bombers.
Fighting traditionally picks up in Afghanistan as warmer weather melts snow in mountain passes, allowing fighters to move around more easily.
Al-Jazeera reported that eight suicide bombers took part in the attacks. Khamma Press further quoted a statement of the NDS, ruling out the involvement of the ISIS Khurasan in the attacks.
Afghanistan’s Interior Minister Wais Ahmad Barmak said at least two attackers involved in the attack were eliminated by security forces. He also confirmed that two policemen had lost their lives during the encounter.
Barmak promised that a thorough investigation would be carried out. He admitted that militants are carrying out their attacks using different tactics.
Afghanistan’s Western-backed government is fighting an intensifying war with both the Taliban and the ISIL group that has turned much of Kabul into a high-security zone of concrete blast walls and razor wire.
