The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, leaving at least eighteen people dead and several others maimed.
Provincial public health director Doctor Najibullah Kamawal said at least eight Sikh nationals and six others including two security personnel were killed in the kaboom.
The eyewitnesses in the area are saying that the incident has taken place close to a trading market in Mukhaberat Chawk.
They also added that the sounds of gunfire were also heard from the incident area.
the provincial public health officials had earlier said that the dead bodies of at least four people have been shifted to the hospital along with at least ten others with injuries.
A member of the provincial council had also said at least seven people were killed and at least twenty others were maimed in the kaboom.
| Update from Ynet at 11:20 a.m. EDT: |
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group on Monday grabbed credit for a suicide kaboom in eastern Afghanistan that killed at least 19 people, mostly Sikhs and Hindus.
The bomber targeted a delegation from the minority communities as it was traveling to the governor's residence in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday for a meeting with President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..Avtar Singh Khalsa, a longtime leader of the Sikh community, was among those killed. Another 20 people were maimed.
In a statement released Monday, ISIS said it had targeted a group of "polytheists."