JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Taliban insurgents have blown up a bridge on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway in the Surkhrod district of eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Wednesday.
Attaullah Khogyani, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News Taliban destroyed the bridge in the Bahawali area of the district before dawn.
He said residents of Surkhrod, Khogyani, Sherzad and Hesarak districts were facing transportation problems as a result of the bridge’s destruction.
Khogyani added Governor Ziaul Haq Amarkhil had instructed the departments concerned to immediately reconstruct the bridge.
Sukhrod district chief Mirajuddin Miraj confirmed the incident and said he visited the . . .
