The Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An explosion hit a vehicle carrying Afghan election workers in an eastern Afghanistan city on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding 10, an Afghan official said.

Faizan, a spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, said the explosion happened in Jalalabad after the vehicle had set off from a U.N. office to take the workers to voter registration sites in the province.

He said that all the people inside the vehicle were women, and one was killed and 10 wounded. The wounded were sent to hospital in the city, he said.

U.N. officials, helping organize national election due in September, could not immediately confirm the blast.

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