At least six people have lost their lives and four others sustained injuries in a mortar attack by terrorists affiliated to the Takfiri Daesh terror group on a mosque in Afghanistan’s troubled eastern province of Nangarhar.
According to the reports, Haji Ghalib, the governor of the Achin district in the province, said on Saturday terrorists affiliated to Daesh terror group fired a number of projectiles at a police station in the area, one of which landed on the mosque as dozens of people were performing Friday prayers.
On October 5, Ghalib warned that Takfiri Daesh terrorists are planning to launch attacks against a number of towns in Nangarhar Province. He said that the extremists are currently in a defensive mode, and sporadically engage in exchanges of gunfire with Afghan security forces.
Nangarhar has been witnessing a rise in the number of Daesh terrorists in some of its districts in recent months.
On June 16, the Afghan Taliban militant group warned Daesh ringleader Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi against “waging a parallel insurgency in Afghanistan.”
Taliban asked the Daesh leader to keep his men out of Afghanistan by withdrawing his support for those elements that are recruiting young militants for Daesh in Taliban strongholds.
source : irib
