Suicide bomber kills at least 10 civilians in Afghanistan

Afghan men carry the coffin of a victim of a deadly suicide attack in Kunar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. At least 10 civilians were killed Saturday morning when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle targeted on a local tribal leader near a park, an Afghan official said. The tribal leader Khan Jan was among those killed. (AP Photos/Mohammad Anwar Danishyar) Afghan men carry the coffin of a victim of a deadly suicide attack in Kunar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. At least 10 civilians were killed Saturday morning when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle targeted on a local tribal leader near a park, an Afghan official said. The tribal leader Khan Jan was among those killed. (AP Photos/Mohammad Anwar Danishyar)

By Associated Press February 27, 2016 1 min read

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – 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.