As many as 10 people, including five civilians, were killed and nine others injured in a suicide attack on a police vehicle at Jalalabad in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said.
The attack took place around 4.15 p.m. near a securitycheck-point, Nangarhar Governor’s spokesman Attaullah Khogyanai told Efe news.The suicide bomber targeted a police car “in which nine people, includingfive civilians, among them a child, were martyred”, he said.
Nine civilians, including three children, were also injuredin the attack. They were taken to a hospital. Of them, the condition of threepersons is said to be critical.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack. Nangarhar ishome to both Taliban and Islamic State militants.
Both groups have in the past carried out deadly attacks inJalalabad. But the Islamic State has been more active compared with Taliban inthe last two years.