A suicide bomb blast in
Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad has killed 33 people and injured more
than 100 outside a bank where government workers collect salaries, 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 it was still too early for the police
to determine if the attacker had worn the explosives or had placed them in a
car.
Taliban insurgents denied
responsibility, although they have claimed earlier killings in a wave of
attacks coinciding with the sharp drawdown of foreign troops.
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.
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