Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Islam terrorist group head Mangal Bagh have been killed in a bomb blast in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday. According Afghani media Mangal Bagh was killed in blast in the Bandari locality of Achin district.
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The Provincial Governor of Achin district took to twitter to confirm the killing “Mangal Bagh, the leader of Lashkar-e-Islam terrorist group, was killed along with two of his comrades in a roadside bomb blast in the Bandar Dara area of Achin district of Nangarhar this morning.”
Mangal Bagh has led Lashkar-e-Islam since 2006 and had hands in the areas of eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan that he controls, particularly Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.