Suicide blast kills 33 outside a bank in Afghanistan city of Jalalabad

Afghanistan, attacco suicida a Jalalabad: 33 morti

18 aprile 2015

Un attacco bomba suicida a Jalalabad, nell’Afghanistan orientale, ha ucciso 33 persone e ne ha ferito più di 100. L’episodio si è verificato fuori dalla filiale di una banca dove i lavoratori statali ritirano gli stipendi. Il capo della polizia di Jalalabad ha spiegato che sono in corso le indagini per verificare se si sia trattato di un attentatore con esplosivo addosso o di un’autobomba. I talebani hanno negato di essere responsabili dell’attacco. Si sta cercando anche di capire l’origine di una seconda esplosione verificatasi quando le altre persone lì presenti sono accorse sul punto della prima deflagrazione per aiutare i feriti. C’è stata poi una terza esplosione ma questa volta era controllata: gli agenti avevano infatti scoperto una terza bomba nei pressi della prima.

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Suicide blast kills 33 outside a bank in Afghanistan city of Jalalabad

More than 100 people were injured in the blast outside a bank used by government workers to collect their salaries, police said

Afghan security forces at the scene of Saturday’s suicide bomb in Jalalabad. Photograph: AP

Reuters

A suicide bomb blast outside a bank in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad killed 33 people and injured more than 100, the city’s police chief said on Saturday.

Police were investigating whether there was a second explosion after people rushed to the scene to help, the police chief, Fazel Ahmad Sherzad, told a news conference.

“It was a suicide attack,” Sherzad said, adding that police had yet to determine if the attacker had worn the explosives or had placed them in a car. “It is early to say what kind of suicide bomber.”

The bank was used by government workers collect salaries.

Taliban insurgents denied responsibility, although they have claimed earlier killings in a wave of attacks coinciding with the sharp drawdown of foreign troops.

“It was an evil act. We strongly condemn it,” the Islamist militants’ spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, told Reuters.

For the first time since the hardline Islamist Taliban movement was ousted from power in 2001, Afghan forces are fighting with little support from Nato troops.

Nato, which at its peak had 130,000 soldiers in Afghanistan, has only a few thousand left, involved mainly in training and special operations.

Police said a third blast that shook Jalalabad was a controlled detonation after experts discovered another bomb close to the scene of the first explosion.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/18/suicide-blast-kills-33-outside-a-bank-in-afghanistan-city-of-jalalabad

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