KABUL, 09 April 2022, (TON): The Islamic Emirate denied the reports of a US airstrike on a weapons cache in the southern province of Helmand and said “Islamic Emirate’s forces gathered mines and detonated them near the Shorab area of the province.”

Earlier, Modern Diplomacy reported that a US drone targeted a weapons cache of the Islamic Emirate in the Shorab area of Helmand.

The Modern Diplomacy cited some intelligence reports, suggesting that the Islamic Emirate’s “weapons depot at Shurab Airport in Helmand province was destroyed in an airstrike.”

Modern Diplomacy said “a heavy explosion at a weapons depot at the Shurab military base took place on Wednesday last week, a source close to the Taliban said the blast was not caused by fire, it was an airstrike that targeted the depot.” 

But the Islamic Emirate denied the airstrike in Helmand. 

Inamullah Samangani, deputy spokesman for the Islamic Emirate said “the rumors that indicate an airstrike was conducted in Shurab of Helmand and that it inflicted casualties, are not true. However, old mines were gathered from several parts of Helmand, and we detonated them.”