Afghan security force members inspect at the site of a blast in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, July 10, 2018. Eight civilians and two security force members were killed and four people wounded in a suicide bomb attack in Jalalabad city, capital of Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar on Tuesday, local official said. (Xinhua/Saifurahman Safi)
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Eight civilians and two security force members were killed and four people wounded in a suicide bomb attack in Jalalabad city, capital of Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar on Tuesday, local official said.
The blast occurred roughly at 10:00 a.m. local time in Police District 6 of city, after a suicide bomber detonated his explosive jacket at a security checkpoint, Attahullah Khogyani, provincial governor spokesman, told Xinhua.
The injured included two security forces and two civilians and the assailant was also killed by the explosion.
The wounded were shifted by rescue teams and police to a main hospital in Jalalabad where one of them is in critical condition, the official said.
A nearby fuel pump station and three vehicles also caught fire following the blast, the spokesman added.
The explosion also damaged several nearby shops and houses.
Earlier reports said that two persons were killed in the incident.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but Taliban militants and militants of the Islamic State terrorist group have presence in the province, 120 km east of Kabul.
The province has been the scene of heavy clashes between militants and security forces as well as deadly bomb attacks from time to time.
On July 1, 19 civilians, including 17 members of Afghan Sikhs and Hindus minority were killed and 21 others wounded in a suicide bomb blast in Jalalabad.
