KABUL, Nov 6: At least 50 people, including six lawmakers, were killed or scores others wounded in a suicide bombing on Tuesday at a sugar factory in northern Afghanistan.

Government officials said the bomber blew himself up in the factory in the northern province of Baghlan just as a parliamentary economics committee was visiting.

“Several people, including civilians, children and at least six MPs were martyred,” presidential spokesman Homayun Hamidzada told AFP.

The suicide blast took place in the late afternoon in the town of Pul-i-Khumri.

“According to initial reports from our local health and hospital officials, there are 100 people killed and injured,” Ahmad Shah Shokohmand, director of provincial health department in the public health ministry in Kabul told AFP.—Agencies