JALALABAD, Afghanistan, March 17 (Xinhua) -- At least one person has been confirmed dead and a few others injured as a suicide bombing rocked Surkhrod district in the eastern Nangarhar province on Friday, a local official said on the condition of anonymity.
"A suicide bombing occurred in Hijrat Kalai neighborhood of Surkhrod district today afternoon killing one person and injuring a few others," the official told Xinhua but declined to be identified, saying authorized officials would brief the media.
Since Friday is weekly off day in Afghanistan, no official was immediately available to make comment.
This is the second suicide attack in the eastern region of the conflict-hit Afghanistan since Friday morning.
In the previous bloody incident a suicide car bomb against army base in the eastern Khost province had killed two persons including the bomber and a soldier and injured seven others.
