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Suicide Bomber Kills 10 in Afghan City of Jalalabad

by Ayaz Gul

   ISLAMABAD --

   At least 10 people were killed and four others wounded Tuesday in
   suicide bombing attack in eastern Afghanistan.

   The bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body at a security
   check post in Jalalabad, capital on Nangarhar province next to the
   border with Pakistan. A provincial government spokesman, Attaullah
   Khogyani told VOA eight civilians and two Afghan spy agency operatives
   were among the dead.

   Eyewitnesses told VOA that security personals were searching vehicles
   at the post when the bomber walked up to them and blew himself up.

   There were no immediate claimed of responsibility for the violence in
   an Afghan province where Taliban insurgents and militants linked to
   Islamic State maintain bases and have taken credit for plotting bomb
   attacks against government forces.