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Afghan security personnel look on after a second explosion following a suicide attack outside a bank in Jalalabad on April 18, 2015. A suicide bomber killed at least 33 people and wounded 100 others in an attack on April 18 outside a bank in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, provincial officials said. (AFP)
A suicide bomber killed at least 33 people and wounded 100 others in an attack Saturday outside a bank in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, according to officials.
"Thirty-three dead bodies and more than 100 wounded were brought to the hospital," Dr Najeebullah Kamawal, head of Nangarhar's provincial hospital, told AFP.
"The explosion happened outside a bank where government employees collect their monthly salaries," Nangarhar provincial police chief Fazal Ahmad Shirzad told AFP.
Provincial government spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai confirmed the attack and said dozens were killed and wounded.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid denied responsibility.
The bombing comes as Afghanistan braces for what is expected to be a bloody push by the Taliban at the start of the fighting season.
The militants have stepped up attacks on government and foreign targets since Washington backpedalled on plans to shrink the US force in Afghanistan this year by nearly half.
On April 10, a suicide car bomber killed three civilians in an attack targeting a NATO convoy in Jalalabad.
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