JALALABAD: A passer by was killed and a policeman injured on Saturday by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, officials said, changing their earlier statement that it was a suicide attack. The explosion caused by a remote control bomb targeted a police vehicle in the eastern city of Jalalabad, local police spokesman Ghafoor Khan said. He had earlier said a suicide bomber blew himself up near a police van. "The person whose body was torn into pieces appears to be a student," Khan said adding that police found books lying around the mutilated body. The latest attack comes two days after a deadly suicide car bomb in southern Uruzgan, which killed 10 people and wounded dozens. A purported spokesman for ousted Taliban militia, Mohammad Anif, in a telephone call to AFP from an undisclosed location, claimed responsibility for the attack and said it was a remote control bomb. Khan was unable to say who might have been behind the latest bombing, but similar attacks including Thursday's have been blamed on the remnants of the Taliban.