Dozens killed in Afghanistan in attacks on funeral, checkpoint

Afghan men carry a wounded man at a hospital in Jalalabad, after a suicide attack which targeted funeral prayers in Laghman province, January 29, 2015. REUTERS/ Parwiz

KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomb attack on a funeral in east Afghanistan killed 16 people and injured another 39 on Thursday, a local official said, an unusually high death toll for a single bombing in a country ravaged by decades of war.

Separately, Taliban militants attacked a checkpoint operated by a group of armed villagers late on Wednesday evening, killing 11 people, according to another official. Seven militants were also killed during the attack, he added.