KABUL: Afghan security forces have killed Abu Muhsin Al Masri, a senior Al Qaeda leader who was on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a tweet last night.
Al Masri has been charged in the US with having provided material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organisation, and conspiracy to kill US nationals. Al Masri, believed to be Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, was killed during a special operation in Ghazni province in eastern Afghanistan, said the NDS, adding that he was the supreme leader of the organisation in the Indian subcontinent.
Meanwhile, a suicide bombing at an education centre in Kabul killed at least 18 people including teenage students and wounded dozens more yesterday, officials said.
An interior ministry spokesman said security guards had identified a bomber who detonated explosives in the street outside the Kawsar-e Danish centre. Most of the victims were students aged between 15 and 26.