Jalalabad blast leaves over 22 dead

2015-04-18 10:18:30

NEWS DESK (DİHA) - At least 22 people have been killed and 50 injured in an explosion in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.

The blast happened outside a bank, said the chief of police for Nangahar province, Fazel Ahmad Sherzad. He said the explosion was caused by a suicide bomber on a motorbike.

Government workers and military personnel were waiting to collect their salaries outside the branch of the New Kabul Bank when the explosion occurred, Mr Sherzad said. A second blast was also reported outside a shrine in Jalalabad on Saturday morning. There are no reported casualties.

No group has said it carried out the attacks.

On 10 April, a Taliban assault on a Nato convoy near Jalalabad airport killed three civilians.

(nt)