Suicide bomber kills 19 in Afghanistan, Hindus and Sikhs among the dead

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a city in eastern Afghanistan where President Ashraf Ghani was visiting, killing at least 19 people, many of them Sikhs, officials said on Sunday, in the latest violence to rock the country. The attacker struck a market located hundreds of metres from the provincial governor's compound where Ghani was holding meetings, governor spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told AFP. Among the 19 dead were 12 Sikhs and Hindus, he told AFP. Another 20 people were wounded. There were scenes of anguish at the hospital where grieving relatives wept and hugged each other as they waited for news of their loved ones. "It is over for us, we are finished, they have massacred us, at least 10 of us," a man told AFP, too upset to give his name.