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A suicide bomb attack on Monday against the Afghan electoral commission office in Kabul killed a police officer and injured five people, the police said. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the most recent one surrounding the legislative elections process in Afghanistan.
The bomber was heading to the door of the heavily fortified electoral commission offices when the police became suspicious of his intentions and opened fire, causing him to detonate his explosive vest, said the chief of police. the police, Bismillah Taban.
The Taliban and the IS had threatened to disrupt the parliamentary elections in Afghanistan, which were held in most provinces on October 20 and in the southern province of Kandahar last Saturday.
According to earlier reports, the bomb attack during Monday's attack had driven a vehicle laden with explosives, but Taban later clarified that he was on foot.
In a statement, the group of Islamic states said that a "martyr's plaintiff, Abu Usama al-Badkhishi" had detonated his jacket near two Afghan security vehicles and a van carrying employees of the Commission.
The parliamentary elections in Afghanistan were held in a climate of violence, with a multitude of attacks resulting in at least 36 deaths. The vote in Kandahar was postponed after the attack on 18 October by an Afghan armored guard who opened fire at a high-level meeting on security in the provincial capital which was also attended by American troops.
The powerful provincial police chief of the province, General Abdul Raziq, was killed, along with at least one other provincial official and several police officers.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and also targeted General Scott Miller, Washington's top commander in Afghanistan, who was not injured. US Army Brigade. General Jeffrey Smiley was injured in the assault.
Raziq's death dealt a severe blow to the Afghan government's already strong war against the resurgence of the Taliban.
The unofficial results of the parliamentary elections are not expected before mid-November, and the official results will be in December.
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Associate Editor Maamoun Youssef in Cairo contributed to this report.
