Gunners shot and killed two Taliban fighters and two civilians on Saturday in the eastern burg of Jalalabad, a Taliban functionary said.
Two other civilians were wounded in the attack, said Mohammad Hanif, a artistic functionary for the burg’s circling bailiwick, Nangarhar.
No bone claimed responsibility for the outburst, but the Islamic State group, which has a strong presence in Nangarhar and considers the Taliban an foe, has anteriorly claimed several attacks against them, including several killings in Jalalabad.
The two civilians killed were Sayed Maroof Sadat, a former point man for the Nangarhar department of husbandry, and his relation, Sharif Sadat told the AP. Sadat’s son was among the two wounded, he added.
Since the Taliban detainer of Afghanistan inmid-August, attacks by IS ideologues against them have increased. The rise has raised the specter of a wider conflict between the two radical groups.
On Friday, Taliban fighters raided a hermitage of the Islamic State group north of Kabul, killing and arresting an given number of ideologues, a Taliban mouthpiece said. IS exercise in Nangarhar element has also led to Taliban crackdowns there.
