At least two people were killed and 19 others wounded Saturday, in 3 explosions in Jalalabad, the largest city in eastern Afghanistan, according to a Taliban official.

The official said that the first attack targeted Taliban police cars that were patrolling the city, killing at least two people and wounding others.

An official at the Health Department in Nangarhar, whose capital is Jalalabad, reported that three people were killed and 18 others were wounded in the explosions.

These bombings are the first bloody attacks since the withdrawal of US forces on August 30, after their presence for two decades.

Jalalabad is considered the most prominent gathering of the terrorist organization ISIS in Afghanistan, which claimed the attack that killed more than 100 people at Kabul airport on August 26.

The Taliban returned to power in mid-August after the withdrawal of US forces and the collapse of the government that supported it, while pledging to establish peace and security, considering that the end of the Western military presence would make it possible to end the violence that the country has witnessed for decades.

The Taliban was criticized after its transitional government announced its lack of diversity, as the government was made up almost exclusively of officials in its former regime and the “Pashtuns”, the ethnic group to which the movement belongs.

AFP