KABUL: The Islamic State on Tuesday claimed a suicide attack in the Afghan capital that killed six people a day earlier, saying it had targeted the Taliban government’s prosecution service.

The Islamic State’s Amaq media wing said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app that “the suicide bomber waited until the time when the prosecutor’s employees were leaving their shifts” before detonating in the middle of a crowd.

On Monday night, Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said six people had been killed and 13 more were wounded in the bombing on the capital’s southern outskirts.

Six killed, 13 wounded in Kabul suicide bombing: police

However the militant group’s media wing put the combined figure of dead and wounded at “more than 45” and said the bombing was committed “to avenge Muslims held in Taliban prisons”.

Violence has waned in Afghanistan since the 2021 Taliban takeover, but the regional chapter of the Islamic State group has frequently targeted foreigners, civilians and Taliban officials.