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10 Killed as Suicide Bombers Raid Afghan Education Office

by Ayaz Gul

   ISLAMABAD --

   A pair of heavily armed suicide bombers Wednesday stormed an education
   department office in eastern Afghanistan and killed at least 11 people.

   Witnesses said the assailants fired indiscriminately at staffers inside
   the building in Jalalabad, capital of the eastern Nangarhar province.

   A provincial government spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, told VOA the
   attack injured 17 people.

   He said shortly after the siege began, Afghan security forces
   surrounded the compound and rescued 20 people before the nearly four
   hours long assault ended. There were no immediate claims of
   responsibility.

   Tuesday, a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing 12 people at a
   security check post in Jalalabad.

   Islamic State's Afghan branch, Khorasan Province or ISKP, claimed
   responsibility for the attack and also released a picture of its
   purported suicide bomber.

   The Middle East-based terrorist group also took credit for the July 1
   suicide bombing in high-security zone of Jalalabad that killed 19
   people, mostly members of the minority Sikh community.

   Nangarhar is located next to the country's porous border with Pakistan
   and several of its southern districts are referred to as ISKP
   strongholds from where they plot and stage terrorist attacks elsewhere
   in Afghanistan.