Armed assailants belonging to ISIS Khursan have entered Gurdwara Karte Parwan, in the capital of Afghanistan on Saturday morning.
Gurnam Singh, the president of the Gurdwara Dashmesh Pita Guru Gobind Singh Karte Parwan, confirmed the attack saying that, “Gunmen have opened fire in the gurdwara. We are on the other side of the building right now. Some people are suspected to be dead, but details will be clear only when we move inside.”
He was quoted by Indian Express as saying that there were at least 20-25 persons from the Sikh community inside the gurdwara when the attack took place.
“The gunmen who attacked the Kabul Gurdwara are probably from the Daesh group, rivals of the Taliban. The Taliban fighters have reached the spot and a fight is ongoing between them. The gurdwara is damaged and 4 Sikhs are missing,” he said.
The attack comes one day after the ISIS planted a mine inside a mosque that killed one person and left seven others injured at the Alif-Birdi mosque in the Imam Sahib district of Kunduz on Friday.
The blast was caused by a mine planted in the mosque and detonated around 1:30 pm during Friday prayers.