"Boy-Bomb" immolated in the Afghan marriage: 10 dead and several wounded | Chronic

Ten people were killed and 20 others injured as a result of a suicide bombing by a miner who, carrying explosives, blew himself up at the wedding of a nephew of 39, a local militia in a city in eastern Afghanistan.

The attack took place in Pachir-Aw-Agam district, Nangarhar province, and according to initial information, ten deaths, including suicide, said the spokesman of the governor of the province, Attaullah Khogyanai.

The attack inside a house was perpetrated by a teenager accused of explosives and the objective was to: Hadji Turkhan, commander of a local militia fighting the insurgency, added the spokesman. The commander, who was attending his nephew's wedding, is among the dead, Khogyanai said.

The attack has not yet been claimed and the Taliban have denied their participation, according to a message broadcast on the social network Twitter of his spokesman. Zabihullah Mujahid, who pointed out that his activists do not have "nothing to see" with what happened, he quoted the news agency EFE.

It should be noted that in Nangarhar province, there is the main stronghold of the radical Islamist Islamic State (IS) group, which often causes suicide bombings against civilians. Events related to marriages have occurred in recent years in Afghanistan.

In most cases, the deaths were due to the detonation of explosives placed on the roads or to the mistakes of the security forces, bomb attacks against congregations thinking that it was happening. of insurgent rallies.

One of the biggest attacks in the country during a wedding took place in 2010, when a suicide bomber blew up the explosives that he wore at a ceremony in the province. Kandahar, in the south of the country, killing at least 40 people and wounding around 100 people.