Around 50 people were killed and 60 others wounded when a suicide blast ripped through crowds gathered to watch a volleyball game in eastern Afghanistan yesterday.
“The suicide attacker was on a motorcycle. He detonated himself in the middle of a volleyball match,” Attaullah Fazli, deputy governor of Paktika province, told the media.
“A lot of people including some provincial officials and the police chief were there. About 50 people have been killed, and 60 injured, a lot of them seriously.”
The attack was in Yahya Khail district of Paktika, a volatile province bordering Pakistan.President Ashraf Ghani, who came to power in September, swiftly condemned the attack, according to his spokesman.
There was no immediate response from the Taliban insurgents, who are responsible for many of the attacks across Afghanistan.
