An Afghan official says a roadside bomb has killed five people in eastern Nangarhar province.
Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor, says the explosion struck a vehicle in the Aska Mina district on Friday, killing at least 20 and also wounding 14 civilians.He said women and children are among the victims.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL, also known as ISIS) has claimed resonsibility for a suicide bombing that killed at least 20 people in the eastern Afghan city of Nangarhar.
Afghanistan has the highest number of mine victims in the world, which along with other roadside bombs kill or wound scores of civilians.
Earlier this month, the UN mission in Afghanistan said the country's civilian death toll in the first three months of this year was a staggering 763 people.
