REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KABUL -- Five people including a lawmaker sustained injuries as a roadside bomb shocked the eastern Nangarhar's provincial capital Jalalabad, 120 km east of the national capital of Kabul city on Saturday, a police official said.
"A parliamentarian Abdul Ghafar along with four others sustained injuries as a roadside bomb went off in 4th precinct of Jalalabad city at around noon today," the official told Xinhua but declined to be identified, saying authorized officials would brief the media after investigation.
Saturday is the third and last day of Muslims largest annual religious festival, the Eid al-Adha, in Afghanistan, where the government has put in place all security measures to enable Afghans to celebrate Eid in a peaceful environment.
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