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Three explosions at a boys' high school in western Kabul also left many injured.
The 23-year-old Najeeb al-Hindi, an M.Tech student from Kerala, was killed, apparently in a suicide attack, reported ISKP's publication 'Voice of Khurasan'.
The Islamic State affiliate in the region known as Islamic State in Khorasan province and headquartered in Afghanistan claimed Friday's devastating attack.
Joe Biden tweeted that the US special forces have taken out the head of Islamic State.
Giving details of the terrorists' arrests made by the NIA, the report said that the premier investigation agency arrested 10 alleged al-Qaeda-affiliated operatives from Kerala and West Bengal on September 19 and 26.
The case pertains to activities of 14 youth from Kasaragod district of Kerala who along with their families had exited India.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi tweeted the news, identifying the man as Sami Jasim, who oversees the Islamic State group's financial operations and served as the deputy leader of IS under the late Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The agency said they had received information that banned ISIS has hatched a conspiracy to radicalise and recruit impressionable Muslim youths in India to wage violent jihad against the Indian State.
The Islamic State reemerged in Afghanistan in 2020 after being weakened by a heavy U.S. bombing campaign directed against them in the eastern part of the country in 2019.
Seven people were injured, three critically, after 32-year-old Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen attacked shoppers at the Countdown supermarket in west Auckland's LynnMall on Friday.