JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- The ongoing Afghan insurgency and violent incidents including mortar fire and bomb blasts have claimed six lives including two innocent children and injured 15 others in the eastern Nangarhar and the neighboring Laghman provinces since Thursday, officials said Friday.
In the latest aggressive attack, the armed militants detonated a remote-controlled bomb next to the residence of a senior police official in Jalalabad city the capital of the eastern Nangarhar province Friday morning killing him and a child and injuring six more children, some in critical condition.
"The blast occurred behind the gate of the house of a police official Abdul Hakim who was in charge of detention center in Nangarhar province at around 10:50 a.m. local time today killing him along with a child and injuring six more children," provincial administration spokesman Attaullah Khogiani told Xinhua.
Three more police also sustained injures as a sticky bomb targeted their van in Jalalabad city on Friday, police said.
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