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AFGHANISTAN-EXPLOSION
Explosion rocks eastern Afghan provincial capital, killing 3
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, July 10, 2018 (BSS/XINHUA) – Two security force
members and an assailant were killed and four people wounded in a suicide
bomb attack in Jalalabad city, capital of Afghanistan’s eastern province of
Nangarhar on Tuesday, local official said.
The blast occurred roughly at 10:00 a.m. local time in Police District 6
of the city, after a suicide bomber detonated his explosive jacket at a
security checkpoint, Attahullah Khogyani, provincial governor spokesman, told
Xinhua.
The injured included three security forces and one civilian. The wounded
were shifted by rescue teams and police to a main hospital in Jalalabad where
one of them is in critical condition, the official said.
A nearby fuel pump station and two vehicles also caught fire following the
blast, the spokesman added.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but Taliban militants
and militants of the Islamic State terrorist group have presence in the
province, 120 km east of Kabul.
The province has been the scene of heavy clashes between militants and
security forces as well as deadly bomb attacks from time to time.
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