A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-packed vest in a market in eastern Afghanistan on Friday morning, killing five men and wounding seven others, a provincial governor said.
The attack took place in the main market in Zazi Maidan district of south-eastern province of Khost when a bomber detonated his explosive among the people, Arsala Jamal, provincial governor told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
"All five dead men were civilians. They were local shopkeepers," Jamal said, adding the site of the attack was close to the main police headquarters in the district and an intelligence office.
However, Mohammad Younuz Zadran, district chief of the Zazi Maidan said that the attack was against police officers, who were shopping at the time of the blast.
Zadran said two of the dead men were police officers.
Both officials blamed Taliban insurgents for the attack. The militants, who lost power in late 2001, have begun to rely heavily on use of suicide and roadside attacks, both tactics are widely believed to have been copied from Iraqi insurgents.
No group took responsibility for Friday's attack yet.