ISIL's Suicide Attacks Plan Foiled in Jalalabad City of Afghanistan

Rasa - The Afghan security forces have foiled a plan by the ISIL terrorist group to carry out a series of suicide attacks in Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of Nangarhar province disclosed Friday.

News ID: 430063

Date: 02 June 2017 - 19:41

RNA - Provincial governor’s spokesman Ataullah Khogyani said the ISIL group had plans to carry out suicide attacks on key governmental, security, and political establishments in this province, Khaama press reported.

Khogyani further added that a member of the ISIL terrorist group identified as Alef Gul was looking to transfer suicide bombers from Haska Mina district to Jalalabad city for the attacks.

According to Khogyani, Gul, originally a resident of Kot district, was arrested as he was attempting to transfer four suicide bombing vests from Hafiz Kodi’s house in Bati Kot district to Haska Mina so that the suicide bombers could be equipped and transferred to Jalalabad city to execute the plan.

He also added that Gul was arrested during a joint operation of the Afghan intelligence and army soldiers in Kot district and the suicide bombing vests were confiscated from the his vehicle.

Nangarhar is among the relatively calm provinces in Eastern Afghanistan but the anti-government armed militant groups have recently increased their insurgency activities in some parts of the province during the recent years.

This comes as the Afghan forces are busy conducting counter-terrorism operations to eliminate the militants affiliated with the ISIS terrorist group in Nangarhar province.

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