[ad_1]
At least 19 people were killed and 21 others wounded yesterday during a suicide bombing in the eastern city of Jalalabad, coinciding with the visit of Afghan President Ashraf Gani, reported an official source. An assailant blew himself up in a central area of the city around 16:00 local time (11:30 GMT), said the spokesman of the governor of Nangarhar province, whose capital Jalalabad is Attaullah Khogiania.
and the wounded are civilians, according to Khogiania, who also pointed out that several vehicles burned in the area because of the power of the explosion.
The provincial health spokesman, Enamullah Miakhil, said that ten of the victims to Hindu and Sikh minorities.
The incident occurred on the same day that Gani was in Jalalabad during an official visit, during which he participated in laying the first stone of a hundred. He reiterated his offer to sit down and talk to the Taliban "wherever they want," according to the Afghan television network Tolo News.
On June 16, the last day of the Taliban's ceasefire, fewer than 18 people died and 49 others were wounded in a suicide attack near the governor's palace in central Jalalabad.
The day before, a suicide bomber took place 15 kilometers from Jalalabad and claimed by the jihadist group. The Islamic State (IS) killed 25 people and wounded 54 where a group of Taliban and civilians gathered to celebrate the truce.
Nangarhar is considered the stronghold of the Islamic State since its bursting into the country in 2015. [19659002L'Australiatraversel'oneofthemostsweepingstepsintheaftermathoftheNorth-AtlanticTreatyOrganization(NATO)'sOrganizationin2015qualitytothesthattheinformationandforformationofafghanforcesinthecountry
Efe
Tragedy. The bomber blew himself up in a downtown area of the city.
More about Internacional
– IMP
[ad_2]
Source link
