At least 33 people killed and more than 100 others injured in attacks near bank branch in eastern Nangarhar province.
At least 33 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in a series of attacks in Jalalabad city in the eastern Nangarhar province.
He said that just hour after the first attack, another explosion happened near the Da Afghanistan Bank branch just 60 metres away from the first attack.
A third attack occurred outside a shrine.
Afghan interior ministry said two other motorcycle bombs were defused in the same vicinity.
The victims were taken to hospital and police started investigations, Sherzad said.
Sherzad said the attacks appeared to be coordinated as they occurred when government employees were at the bank branch to draw their salaries.
The New Kabul Bank also pays the salaries of Aghanistan's police.
Al Jazeera's Jennifer Glasse, reporting from Kabul, said: "These attacks come at a particularly delicate time for Afghanistan- they're voting on 16 candidates for cabinet positions today".
"It's been six months since the president was elected and he still doesn't have a cabinet, so any violence will worsen an ulready unstable situation.
Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, denied the group had any involvement with the attack.
"It is a sad incident. The mujahideen [Taliban] had no role in it", he said.
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