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Sikhs among 19 dead in Jalalabad suicide attack

Nearby buildings were damaged by the force of the blast. [EPA]

A suicide bombing in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad has killed at least 19 people, most of them members of the country's Sikh minority.

Police said they had been travelling in a vehicle to meet President Ashraf Ghani, who is visiting Nangarhar province, when the bomber struck.

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