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Security forces are inspecting the site of a deadly explosion near a demonstration of hundreds of Shiites in central Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, November 12, 2018. Afghan officials confirmed that several people had been killed. killed in the blast near a high school. At 500 meters from the yards gathered to denounce Taliban attacks in the districts of Jaghuri and Malistan, in the province of Ghazni (east). (AP Photo / Massoud Hossaini) The Associated Press
By RAHIM FAIEZ and AMIR SHAH, Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – A suicide bomb attack on Monday hit at least three people at an anti-Taliban rally in the Afghan capital, officials said, according to US officials. killed at least 20 members of the country's security forces. last 24 hours in the east of Ghazni province.
Basir Mujahid, spokesman for the Kabul police chief, said the suicide bomber was walking and blew his vest filled with explosive after being seen by the police.
The attack took place about 500 meters from where hundreds of Shiite minorities had gathered to denounce the latest Taliban attacks in Ghazni districts in Jaghuri and Malistan.
Wahid Mujroh, spokesman for the Ministry of Health, said at least three people were confirmed dead and 24 were wounded. The wounded were taken to hospitals, he added.
Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the blast.
A rebellious Taliban, who now controls nearly half of Afghanistan and organizes almost daily attacks against Afghan forces, and the group of Islamic group of states in the region have been at the origin of many bombings and bombings in Kabul.
According to Afghan legislator Ali Akbar Qasemi, the fighting that has been going on since Sunday in Ghazni has focused on the district of Jaghuri where 20 policemen were killed.
Afghan army chief General Mohammad Sharif Yaftali told reporters that government forces suffered casualties during the fighting, but did not say how many were killed.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid took responsibility for the Jaghuri attacks and said in an SMS sent to the media that the Taliban had also captured the Ghazni district of Malistan.
The authorities did not immediately react to the Malistan compensation claim.
Ghazni is the only one of the 34 Afghan provinces where the parliamentary elections of the month of October could not take place for security reasons. The vote was postponed for one year.
In August, the Taliban invaded part of the provincial capital, also called Ghazni. At that time, hundreds of people fled the city amid heavy fighting between Afghan forces and insurgents, which killed around 120 members of the security forces and civilians. According to Afghan authorities, nearly 200 insurgents, including many foreign fighters, have also been killed.
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