ISIS Claims Bombing Targeting Shiites in North Afghanistan

ISIS Claims Bombing Targeting Shiites in North Afghanistan
A wounded man receives treatment in a hospital, after a bombing in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, on April 28, 2022. AP Photo
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KABUL, Afghanistan—The ISIS terrorist group’s affiliate in Afghanistan claimed responsibility on Friday for two bombings in the country’s north that targeted the country’s minority Hazara ethnic group a day earlier.

The car bombings Thursday in Mazar-e-Sharif killed at least nine people and wounded 13 others, according to local Taliban representatives. The Hazaras are mostly Shiite Muslims, who ISIS consider heretics. An ISIS statement said 30 Shiites were killed or wounded in the two attacks.