Remote-Controlled Bomb Wounds 16 in Eastern Afghan City

A bomb attack wounded 16 people Sunday in an eastern Afghan city hit a day earlier by a deadly suicide blast targeting the Indian consulate, officials said.

The remote-controlled device exploded in Jalalabad as a vehicle passed carrying state prosecutor Abdul Qayoom, local government spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai told media outlets.

The powerful explosion in the city center wounded Qayoom, his driver and four guards and 10 civilians, Abdulzai said.

A doctor at the city’s main hospital said 16 people with bomb injuries were admitted and the condition of four, including the prosecutor, was “very
serious”.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing, which followed a deadly suicide attack on the Indian consulate in the same city on Saturday which killed nine civilians, most of them children studying the holy Quran in a nearby mosque.

That attack, a car bombing, remains unclaimed as the Taliban denied involvement soon afterwards.

The militants often deny attacks that cause high number of civilian casualties and exaggerate attacks on military targets.