Ten people were injured by a bomb blast in Taliqan, the capital of northern Takhar province on Wednesday, a local official said.

"A bomb planted inside the branch of Kabul Bank in Taliqan city was detonated at around 01:15 p.m. local time leaving 10 people injured," spokesman for provincial administration Faiz Mohammad Tawhidi told Xinhua.

Some of the injured men are in critical condition, he said.

This is the second bomb attack in Afghanistan on Wednesday.

Earlier, a suicide car bomb explosion in southern Lashkar Gah city left the bomber dead and a police and six civilians wounded.

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