[KhaamaPress] Local officials in NangarharThe unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province said, at least one person has been killed in a kaboom near the PD1 of Jalalabad city.
Ataullah Khogyani, the front man for the governor of Nangarhar told media on Thursday, that the earth-shattering kaboom took place in the First police zone of Jalalabad city.
He added that one person was killed in the blast.
No individual or group has grabbed credit for this incident.
Sardar Ajmal Bawar, a news hound at Safa FM radio posted the news of a blast in the city writing that "A man was martyred in a roadside kaboom blast near Bagh-e-Zanana in Jalalabad’s PD1".
He later realizes the killed individual in the blast is his brother.
Nangarhar, an eastern province in Afghanistan, is one of the most insecure provinces in the country, where the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...have a large presence.