Roundup: Suicide car bomb kills 4 civilians, wounds 12 in E. Afghanistan

Four civilians were killed and 12 others injured as a suicide car bomb hit Nangarhar's provincial capital Jalalabad city on Friday, a statement of the provincial government sent to media said.

"The terrorists conducted a suicide car bomb against a convoy of foreign forces outside provincial capital Jalalabad at around 10:00 a.m. local time today, leaving four people, all civilians dead and injuring 12 others," the statement said.

However, the statement didn't say if there were casualties on foreign troopers.

The foreign forces serving in Afghanistan under the name of Resolute Support (RS) have yet to make comment.

Earlier, Nangarhar provincial police chief Fazal Ahmad Shirzad, in talks with Xinhua confirmed the bloody incident, saying all the victims were innocent passersby.

Shirzad, however has refused to make comment on the possible casualties of foreign forces.

Meanwhile, Taliban militants fighting the government to regain power, in an online statement released couples of hours after the deadly incident, claimed responsibility of the attack, saying a militant named Jawad Kandahari conducted the suicide car bombing against the convoy of U.S. troops near the Nangarhar airport and inflicted huge casualties, a claim rebuffed by Shirzad as baseless. Endi