JALALABAD (SW) – Back-to-back blasts in Jalalabad city on Saturday claimed at least three lives and left 21 others wounded.
A source in Nangarhar province told Salam Watandar that three separate blasts in different parts of Jalalabad, the provincial capital, had killed three civilians and wounded 21 others, including Taliban members, earlier in the day.
The source added that the explosions, which took place at around 10 am today at Kabul Station in Jalalabad, in the sixth district of the city, and in the Angurbagh area, in the fourth district of Jalalabad, were caused by landmines.
The source said that schoolchildren were among the injured in the blasts.
Officials from the Taliban Information and Culture Department in Nangarhar confirmed that a number of people had been ‘slightly injured’ in the blasts.
It is worth mentioning that these explosions are one of the first explosions in Nangarhar after the Taliban took power.
No group or individual has claimed responsibility for the blasts.
Meanwhile, two people were injured this morning as a result of a magnetic mine explosion in the 13th security district of Kabul as well.
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