MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Initial reports of a powerful explosion in Asadabad city gave the death toll at 15 people, according to the Pajhwok news service.
Freelance Afghanistan-based journalist Bilal Sarwary cited local residents as saying the purported assailant arrived near the governor’s office on a motorbike and approached tribal elder Haji Khan Jan before detonating his explosives.
Jan was reportedly among the casualties.