At least 15 people were killed and 14 injured in a bomb blast at a funeral ceremony in Jalalabad, provincial capital of Nangarhar, this afternoon.
The blast took place around 2 pm in PD6 of Jalalabad city after a bomb exploded at the funeral ceremony of the head of the development council of Haska Mina District.
The bomb was placed in a rickshaw, according to officials.
Eyewitness said that all the victims were the people who had gathered at the ceremony.
Attaullah Khoghyani, provincial governor’s spokesman, said that it was a suicide attack in which 15 people were killed and 14 others were injured.
The victims were taken to the nearby hospital in the city.
No group, including Taliban, has claimed responsibility for the blast as yet.
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