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The victims of the attack were going to a meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
KABUL
A suicide bomber blew up his explosive charge on Sunday against a convoy of Sikhs and Hindus surrendering to encounter with the President of Afghanistan in the city of of Jalalabad causing the death of of at least 19 people
Seventeen [19659008] the 19 dead in the attack come from the Sikh and Hindu community which is a minority in the country, reported the spokesman of the hospital in Nangarhar Province Inamullah Miakhail
At least 10 of the 20 wounded were also from the same community and were treated in a hospital in Jalalabad, said Narendr Singh, a spokesperson
. He was injured in the attack, said by phone from his hospital bed Jalalabad that the attack
He started crying and said that he was worried about what had happened to his father, Avtar Singh Khalsa, who was also part of the group.
Miakhail confirmed that Khalsa, Sikh community leader and who had planned to run for parliamentary elections scheduled for October, died in the attack.
Several companies and vehicles were burned as a result of the attack, said Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor.
Nangarhar police, General Ghulam Sanayee Stanekzai, said that the man had attacked the group while he was heading to the governor's compound. He planned to meet President Ashraf Ghani, who was visiting the region on Sunday.
No group immediately attributed the attack, but the Taliban and affiliates of the Islamic State group have an active presence in the region.
Sikhs and Hindus have long suffered widespread discrimination in the conservative Muslim country and have been attacked by extremists of the Islamic State.
There were more than 80,000 people in the community in 1970, but today there are only 1,000 left in Afghanistan
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