Islamic State claims attack on state TV station in Afghanistan

JALALABAD, Afghanistan, May 17: The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on an Afghan state television station today that killed at least six people as well as the attackers and wounded 24.
The attack, in the eastern city of Jalalabad, was the latest in a series on Afghan journalists and media in recent years.
It came just over a week after it was confirmed that the leader of Islamic State in Afghanistan had been killed in a US drone strike.
Islamic State, or Daesh as it is generally known in Afghanistan, has established a stronghold in Nangarhar province bordering Pakistan, of which Jalalabad is capital, where it fights both the Taliban and Afghan government forces.
The raid on the RTA state broadcaster was carried out by four attackers, one of whom had detonated a suicide bomb at the entrance to the compound, said provincial governor Gulab Mangal.
(Reuters)