10 killed in bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan

At least ten civilians were killed and 28 others wounded as a blast targeted a mini-bus of security forces in Nangarhar's provincial capital Jalalabad.

Jalalabad: A bomb blast in Afghanistan's east killed at least ten people including a child on Monday, according to an official, in an attack targeting a minibus carrying new army recruits.

Ataullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, said that attack in Jalalabad city wounded 28 other people.

The bomb was placed in a rickshaw and detonated when the army bus arrived.

Khogyani said that some of the injured brought to a regional hospital are in 'critical condition'.

He added that after the first blast, security forces successfully defused a couple of other bombs in the same area.

No one immediately claimed the attack, but both the Taliban and the Islamic State group are active in eastern Afghanistan, and especially in the Nangarhar province.

Afghanistan has seen an upsurge in violence since the collapse of US-Taliban peace talks last month.