KABUL, June 23: An improvised bomb exploded at a music market in an Afghan city on Saturday, leaving two people dead, officials said, a day after the Taliban stormed a lakeside resort near Kabul in which at least 18 were killed.

The blast at the market in Jalalabad wounded four people, local government spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said.

Two of the injured later died, said Sayed Afandi Sayedi, a senior doctor at a hospital.

Saturday’s blast and Friday’s bloody 12-hour siege at a hotel popular with families will add to fears that the Taliban are seeking to re-impose their extreme moral code as the departure of foreign forces after two-and-a-half years approaches.—AFP