Suicide bomber and gunmen hit eastern Afghanistan government office

Record ID: 1432871

  • Title: Suicide bomber and gunmen hit eastern Afghanistan government office
  • Date: 18th September 2019
  • Summary: JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN (SEPTEMBER 18, 2019) (REUTERS) GOVERNMENT BUILDING TARGETED BY SUICIDE BOMBER AND GUNMEN (AUDIO OF GUNFIRE) SECURITY PERSONNEL HEADING TOWARD GOVERNMENT BUILDING GOVERNMENT BUILDING TARGETED BY SUICIDE BOMBER AND GUNMEN (AUDIO OF GUNFIRE) MILITARY VEHICLE MOVING TOWARDS GOVERNMENT BUILDING VARIOUS OF AFGHAN SECURITY PERSONNEL AND MILITARY VEHICLES AT SITE OF ATTACK (AUDIO OF GUNFIRE) PEOPLE AND AMBULANCES NEAR SITE OF ATTACK (SOUNDBITE) (Pashto) LOCAL RESIDENT, MOHAMMAD YUSUF, SAYING: "We ask the government to move their offices from this residential area. All our children have been panicked by today's attack and the government is unable to ensure security. The suicide bombers are entered the building and people are in trouble due to the road blockages." MILITARY VEHICLE WITH STOP SIGN ON BACK MOVING VARIOUS OF AFGHAN SECURITY PERSONNEL AND MILITARY VEHICLES ARRIVING AT SITE OF ATTACK
  • Embargoed: 2nd October 2019 13:30
  • Keywords: Afghanistan suicide bomber government building eastern Afghan presidential election
  • Location: JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN
  • City: JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN
  • Country: Afghanistan
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Insurgencies
  • Reuters ID: LVA001AX6NJGN
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A suicide bomber and gunmen wounded at least nine people, including a child and a woman, in an attack on a government building in eastern Afghan on Wednesday (September 18), officials said.
    The attackers detonated explosives before gunmen poured into the building, said the officials. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
    The office is a distribution centre in the city of Jalalabad for national identity cards, which people need to vote in Afghanistan's presidential election in 10 days.
    Much of Afghanistan is on high alert in the days approaching the election, the country's fourth presidential poll since United States-led forces toppled the hardline Islamist Taliban in 2001. The insurgents have sworn to violently disrupt the vote, which comes in the aftermath of collapsed peace talks between the militants and the U.S.
    Roughly 9.6 million people, about a third of them women, have registered to vote, but roughly one in 12 polling centres may not open because of security threats.
    Earlier on Wednesday the Taliban warned teachers, students and other education workers to avoid the upcoming presidential vote or risk dying in attacks on election centres.
    (Production: Mohammad Rafiq, Sayed Hassib, Hameed Farzad)
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