According to a statement released by Special Operations Corps, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off prematurely among Talibs in northern Sar-e-Pul
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...
province which killed 5 Talibs.
The statement further added that the bomb went
kaboom!among Talibs in Sayad district, killing five Talibs including Bismillah alias Farahuddin, one of the sharp-shooters (snipers) of the group.
The Special Operations Corps also added that the earth-shattering kaboom also destroyed a thermal rifle scope.
The Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...group has not commented regarding the incident so far.
Talibs and other hard boy groups often use improvised bomb as the weapon of their choice to target the security forces and government officials.