A bomb blast rocked Jalababad city in Afghanistan on Sunday in which at least 11 people were killed and another 15 injured.
The attack took place near the home of a prominent politician Obaidullah Shinwari, a member of Nangarhar’s provincial council.
Ataullah Khyogani, spokesman for the Nangarhar provincial government, said that the attacker detonated his explosives around 10:30 am at the residential compound of Obaidullah Shinwari.
On January 13, Afghan security forces exchanged fire with gunmen barricaded in a house near the Pakistan consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad after a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing as many as seven people and wounding two, officials said.
The latest in a series of suicide attacks in Afghanistan comes amid renewed efforts to restart peace talks with the Taliban and ease diplomatic tensions between India and Pakistan.
Photograph: Reuters
