The Islamic State in the Khorasan Province (ISKP) carried out and recoded an assassination against a high ranking Taliban security official in the city of Fayzabad, in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province.

The perpetrators recorded the incident from a nearby vehicle and likely also command detonated the device from there as well.

Taliban interior minister Abdul Nafi Takor stated, "Unfortunately a blast in Badakhshan this morning claimed the life of provincial Police Chief Mawlawi Abdul Haq Abuomar and injured two others."