Suicide bomber in Afghanistan kills 19

KABUL, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber targeted a convoy of Sikhs and Hindus on their way to meet Afghanistan's president in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday, killing at least 19 people.

Inamullah Miakhail, spokesman for the provincial hospital in Nangarhar, said that 17 of those killed were from the minority Sikh and Hindu communities.

Miakhail added that at least 10 of the 20 wounded were from the same communities and are undergoing treatment at a Jalalabad hospital.