New Blast in Afghanistan's Jalalabad Kills 2

KABUL (Sputnik) - Two Afghan civilians died as a result of an explosion at a bus station in the eastern city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province on Sunday morning, an eyewitness said.

The blast also injured one Taliban* militant, the eyewitness said.

On Saturday, a car bomb explosion in Jalalabad killed three people and injured 19.

The Taliban took over Afghanistan on 15 August. The US-led NATO troops evacuated by 31 August, ending the nearly 20-year foreign military presence in the Central Asian country. The last stronghold of the anti-Taliban resistance in the Panjshir province fell on 6 September.

The Taliban formed an interim government composed of exclusively male members of the radical movement and headed by Mohammad Hasan Akhund, who served as a foreign minister during the first Taliban rule and has been under UN sanctions since 2001.

*Taliban is a terrorist organisation banned in Russia.