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A suicide bomber blew up his explosive – filled jacket among a group of people who demonstrated Tuesday against a local police commander in eastern Afghanistan, killing 25 people and wounding 130 others. indicated a provincial official.
"About four hundred people gathered for the protest and the suicide bomber blew his jacket full of explosives into the crowd," said captain Qais Saifi, a senior police chief in Nangarhar province. .
General Ghulam Sanayee Stanikzai, police chief of Nangarhar Province, said that residents of Achin district had come to Momandara district to block the main road between the capital Jalalabad and the Torkham-Torkham border. Pakistan.
Stanikzai said the locals had come together to complain about a local police commander and that the kamikaze had targeted them. It was unclear whether the attacker knew the nature of the event.
Also in Nangarhar, at least one person was killed and four others wounded in a series of bombings against different schools, said Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor of the province.
Khogyani said the first bomb exploded near a school in the provincial capital of Jalalabad. This explosion was followed by two others in Behsud district, also near two schools.
A 14-year-old student was killed and four others wounded in the first attack, he added.
No one has immediately claimed responsibility for these attacks, but Taliban insurgents and the Islamic State group are active in eastern Afghanistan, particularly in Nangarhar province.
