Suicide bomber kills at least 10 civilians in Afghanistan

KABUL — At least 10 civilians were killed Saturday morning when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a local tribal leader near a park in eastern Kunar province, an Afghan official said. Gen.Abdul Habib Sayedkhaili, provincial police chief in Kunar, said that tribal leader Khan Jan was among those killed. Jan was a vocal public opponent of the Taliban and was leading a local uprising against Taliban fighters in his area in Dangam district. Forty other civilians were wounded in the attack which took place in the provincial capital, Asadabad, said Sayedkhaili. A statement from the Afghan Interior Ministry condemned the attack and called it, "an act against humanity." The statement set the death toll at 11 people killed in the attack. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the Kunar attack, but local several provincial officials in Kunar blamed Taliban insurgents because of Jan's vocal opposition to the Islamic militant group.