Explosion in Afghan graveyard kills 10 women: Officials

Two other women and a child also wounded in the attack.

JALALABAD: An explosion killed at least 10 women in a graveyard in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said, as the country celebrated the Eidul Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan.

"An explosion happened in a graveyard," Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal, police spokesman for Nangarhar province, told AFP. "Ten women were killed in the blast, while two other women and a child were also wounded."