Taliban sources confirm ISIS missile attack on Uzbek territory after investigation
MAZARI SHARIF, April 18 - Sangar, Kari Ahmad. Details and documents obtained from the scene confirm Daesh's claim of rocket attacks on Uzbekistan.
A Taliban police officer in the Shurteppa district of Balkh province investigating the incident told the Sangar website that the shelling came from a home in the Turkmen village of Tuqay.
“This house used to belong to Haji Wahhab, a member of the previous parliament and is close to the area of Sari Chah. Last year, he sold the yard to a Turkmen from Ghazian, Davlatabad. About two months ago, a young Uzbek, allegedly from Mazar-i-Sharif, rented a house for 10,000 Afghani for two months. There was also a young Turkmen guard who also drives a water carrier around the area,” he said.
According to the source, the same young Uzbek constructs a BM-12 device sets it up inside the yard and glues the phone to the window, and then, according to witnesses, leaves the house at about 8 am and disappears.
“This device is similar to the BM 12, as it is called in Afghanistan, 40-mila. Obviously, if not a car, it cannot be moved, but this is a homemade device. We think the device was triggered by a phone. Apparently, this person activates the device when he arrives in Mazar-i-Sharif or Puli Khumri, and rockets are fired,” he said.
The initial information about the incident was that at 10 am on Monday, April 18, a missile attack was launched on the Uzbek city of Tirmiz from the Afghan city of Bandar-Hairatan. Later that day, the Daesh-Khorasan terrorist group, with video evidence, claimed to have carried out its first attack on Uzbekistan.
Sources from the Sangar website in Balkh province previously reported that six rockets were fired at Uzbekistan from a BM-1 cannon in the Saricha area near the city of Hairatan, but new video footage shows that seven rockets were fired.
The device seen in Sangar's video is consistent with the device in the terrorist organization's video.
The Daesh-Khorasan terrorist group has released a photo claiming that a member of the group attacked Uzbek soldiers in the Termez region of Afghanistan. However, Sangar's interlocutor said that the missiles did not hit Uzbekistan because, according to one hypothesis, they did not have a knob, on the other hand, it is possible that they had a knob, and they fired at Turkmenistan because the village of Toqay borders both countries.
Earlier, the press service of the President of Uzbekistan denied the ISIS-Khorasan attack on its borders, calling it a "provocation", stating that no incidents or hostilities were observed on the Uzbek-Afghan border.
This is the first direct attack by ISIS on Uzbekistan and the countries of Central Asia from the territories of Afghanistan after the appearance of a terrorist organization in this country.
*The organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities.
