Kabul:
Afghan forces have killed the Taliban mastermind of a suicide vehicle bomb attack that left at least 30 safety personnel dead, officials mentioned Monday.
Hamza Waziristani was killed in an air strike overnight in the eastern province of Ghazni exactly where the bomber struck an Afghan military base on Sunday.
“The mastermind behind yesterday’s terrorist attack on the (Ghazni) base was killed along with seven other terrorists,” the defence ministry mentioned in a statement.
Ministry spokesman Fawad Aman told AFP that Waziristani was a Taliban terrorist from the Pakistani border area of Waziristan.
The attack was one particular of the deadliest in months targeting government forces in Afghanistan, exactly where violence has surged considering the fact that the begin of peace talks in between President Ashraf Ghani’s administration and the Taliban in Qatar.
No group has claimed the attack.
The Taliban frequently do not comment on deadly attacks they are accused of carrying out.
The insurgents have launched close to every day attacks against Afghan forces, mostly in rural regions, considering the fact that signing a deal with Washington in February that paved the way for the withdrawal of foreign troops by May 2021.
Health officials in Ghazni mentioned 30 people today died in Sunday’s attack, but the defence ministry — which is recognized to downplay tolls in attacks against its forces — mentioned 10 had been killed.
Violence has also surged in Kabul in current weeks, with far more than 50 people today killed in two assaults on educational centres and a rocket attack.
The 3 Kabul attacks had been claimed by the Islamic State group, but Afghan officials blamed the Taliban — who denied any involvement