A bomb planted in an Afghangraveyard killed 14 women and children on Thursday, many of thempicnicking at the graveside of a family member during the Eid al-Fitr holiday, officials said.
The bomb exploded in a rural district of eastern Nangarharprovince, said the provincial governor's spokesman, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai.
Nangarhar and its capital, Jalalabad, have been racked by aseries of bombings and suicide attacks over the last week.
It is common in Afghanistan on the first day of Eid forpeople to pay their respects at the graves of loved ones. Thevictims were mainly from one family, Abdulzai said.
Three women and one child were wounded, he added.
Three Afghan bodyguards for the Helmand province policechief, Mohammad Hakim Angaar, were killed on Wednesday in asuicide bombing, the provincial governor's spokesman, Omar Zwak,said.
In June, a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden carinto the former Helmand police chief's convoy, wounding three.