Jalalabad blast leaves over 22 dead
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.
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