Bailey Cahall | The AfPak Channel | At least nine Afghan civilians were killed and 24 were injured
in Jalalabad on Saturday when three militants attempting to attack the Indian
consulate were stopped at a checkpoint and opened fire on a crowded street
before detonating a car bomb that ripped through a nearby mosque. Six of the victims were children who had been
studying the Koran inside the mosque.
India's Foreign Ministry confirmed that none of the consulate's staff
members had been killed, and there appeared to be no link between the attack
and the al-Qaeda threat alert that shuttered dozens of U.S. embassies over the
weekend. Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman
for the Afghan Taliban, denied involvement in the attack, causing suspicion to
instead fall upon several Pakistan-based terrorist groups, including the
Haqqani Network and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
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