Uzbek suicide bomber, who previously studied in St. Petersburg, blew himself up at the entrance to a bank in Afghanistan.

The explosion killed 19 people and injured about 20 more.

On March 21, an extremist suicide bomber blew himself up outside a bank in Kandahar. At least 19 people were reported dead and more than 20 were injured.

The victims of the terrorist attack were the Taliban guarding the bank and government employees standing in line to receive their salaries.

According to Afghan intelligence sources, the terrorist attack in Kandahar was carried out by a citizen of Uzbekistan, Asadbek Madiyarov.

According to the Al Mersaad resource controlled by the Taliban GUR, the man appeared under the name of Muawiya Panjsheri. It is known that Madiyarov, two months before the terrorist attack, was trained in an IS** camp in the Pakistani province of Balochistan.

According to the media, the terrorist studied at the University of St. Petersburg until 2021, then returned to his homeland, after which he became a radical Islamist.