Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 16 people in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, Reuters reported citing the militant group’s Amaq news agency.
Earlier in the day, suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a construction company office in the Afghan city of Jalalabad, killing 16 employees of the Afghan company, a provincial official said.
Jalalabad is the capital of Nangarhar province, which is on the border with Pakistan.