Witnesses said that immediately after the blast, security forces shot in the air to disperse the crowd. Angry demonstrators sealed some of the area around the square, and prevented police and other security forces from entering. In Nangarhar they have fought Taliban fighters as well as Afghan security forces, sometimes seizing control of whole districts in the east of the province. Some threw stones at security forces. The Afghan Interior Ministry said that 80 people had been killed and 231 wounded in the bombing.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald July 23, 2016 23:48 UTC