Kabul Gurdwara assault: Taliban fighters tried to guard temple for 3 hours, says IS

IS mentioned the assault was in response to “insults levelled at the Prophet by an Indian government spokewoman”. They mentioned that Taliban fighters tried to guard the temple for 3 hours however they focused the fighters with explosives.

A Taliban fighter stands guard on the website the place an explosive-laden car detonated amidst an assault on a Sikh Temple in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo: Reuters)

The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), whereas claiming the duty for assault concentrating on a Gurdwara in Kabul, mentioned that it was led by Inghimasi Abu Mohammad Al-Tajiki. Militants fought for greater than three hours with Taliban fighters who tried to intervene to guard the temple, concentrating on them with 4 explosive gadgets and a automotive bomb, the militant group mentioned on an affiliated Telegram channel.

The ISKP has claimed the assault was a “response to the Indian politicians who insulted the Prophet”

The dreaded terror group mentioned one in all its fighters “penetrated a temple for Hindu and Sikh polytheists” in Kabul, after killing the guard, and opened hearth on the worshippers inside together with his machine gun and hand grenades.

Several blasts tore by way of Gurdwara Karte Parwan in Kabul’s Bagh-e Bala neighbourhood on Saturday whereas Afghan safety personnel thwarted an even bigger tragedy by stopping an explosive-laden car from reaching the place of worship of the minority neighborhood within the war-torn nation.