Kabul, February 19 .- Eighteen people, including civilians and security forces, were killed and 70 wounded in a double suicide bombing assault and registered at a bank in the city of Jalalabad, in eastern Afghanistan, said a official source. Seven attackers broke into the offices of the Kabul Bank branch in the plaza Mokhaborat of Jalalabad, where two blew themselves up after holding a firefight for several hours against the security forces, according to various sources.
According to spokesman for the provincial governor of Nangarhar, whose capital is Jalalabad, "Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, at least eighteen people were killed in the attack, while 70 others were injured. "Seven insurgents were involved in the incident, two of whom blew themselves up, while the other five were killed in the firefight with Afghan security forces," he added Abdulzai.
The attack was condemned by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who called it "anti-Islamic" in a statement released by his presidential office. The office had initially reported the deaths of three people, although the head of the city's public hospital, Baz Mohammad Shirzad, raised shortly after nine the number of victims.
Also joined the condemnation, hours later, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), through its public affairs director, Admiral Vic Beck. The Taliban have claimed responsibility and the responsibility for the events, according to Afghan Tolo TV channel. A source quoted by AIP Afghan agency explained that attacked the branch, located in a commercial building called Kamran Plaza, members often come from the Afghan border police to collect their wages, and that could have been the reason for the attack.
Suicide bombings are one of the most recurrent of Taliban insurgents in their fight against the Afghan army and international troops in the country, to establish a fundamentalist Islamic regime cutting. Die each year in the country many thousands of victims of violence. 
According to spokesman for the provincial governor of Nangarhar, whose capital is Jalalabad, "Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, at least eighteen people were killed in the attack, while 70 others were injured. "Seven insurgents were involved in the incident, two of whom blew themselves up, while the other five were killed in the firefight with Afghan security forces," he added Abdulzai.
The attack was condemned by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who called it "anti-Islamic" in a statement released by his presidential office. The office had initially reported the deaths of three people, although the head of the city's public hospital, Baz Mohammad Shirzad, raised shortly after nine the number of victims.
Also joined the condemnation, hours later, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), through its public affairs director, Admiral Vic Beck. The Taliban have claimed responsibility and the responsibility for the events, according to Afghan Tolo TV channel. A source quoted by AIP Afghan agency explained that attacked the branch, located in a commercial building called Kamran Plaza, members often come from the Afghan border police to collect their wages, and that could have been the reason for the attack.
Suicide bombings are one of the most recurrent of Taliban insurgents in their fight against the Afghan army and international troops in the country, to establish a fundamentalist Islamic regime cutting. Die each year in the country many thousands of victims of violence.
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