(China.org.cn): A university teacher was killed and two other teachers wounded in a bomb attack in Jalalabad, capital city of eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar on Tuesday, a provincial government spokesman confirmed. “The blast occurred after a sticky bomb attached to a sedan carrying university teachers was detonated roughly at 5:00 p.m. local time. The incident took place in Police District 7 of the city,” spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told Xinhua. The injured were shifted to the main provincial hospital. The deceased also served as head of Language and Literature Faculty of Nangarhar University. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. Over the past months, Afghanistan, especially big cities, has witnessed waves of terror attacks by the Taliban insurgents and Islamic State (IS) outfit opposing the government.
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