2 border police personnel killed in Jalalabad explosion

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Two prder police members were killed and two others wounded in a bomb attack in eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, an officials said.

Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the casualties occurred at 11am when the pick-up carrying the border police personnel came under attack.

He said the injured policemen were evacuated to hospital and were in stable condition. The bomb exploded near the Kabul terminal in Jalalabad, the provincial capital.

Eyewitness Samiullah the ill-fated Ranger pick-up was on its way to the border police base. He believed the vehicle was struck by a magnetic bomb. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

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