At least 33 people
have been killed and 100 injured in a suicide bomb attack in the eastern Afghan
city of Jalalabad. The blast happened outside a bank where government staff and
military personnel were collecting their salaries. A spokesman for a group
claiming to represent Islamic State in Afghanistan said it carried out the
attack, though the claim is yet to be verified. Children are said to be among
the victims. Afghanistan's President, Ashraf Ghani, called it a "cowardly
and heinous terrorist act". Police said another bomb was discovered
nearby, and was destroyed in a controlled explosion. Another blast was also reported
outside a shrine in Jalalabad on Saturday morning. There are no reported
casualties.
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