Five police officers died and about 30 people, largely civilians, were injured Sunday in an explosion in Gardez, where three others died when another New Kabul Bank branch was attacked in May.
Afghan has faced a series of large-scale attacks as the Taliban stepped up their war against the Kabul government after launching this year's summer offensive.
However, Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security later said that the attack had been staged by the Haqqani Network insurgent group in coordination with Pakistan's intelligence service.
Taliban control much of Helmand province in Southern Afghanistan.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said last week that President Donald Trump had given him the authority to establish troop levels in Afghanistan.
Vehicle bomb explodes outside bank in Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province.
Speaking to the Associated Press, Lashkargah health director Haji Moladad Tobagar said that the hospital received 25 bodies after the attack, as well as 60 wounded.
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The worst occurred May 31, shortly after Ramadan began, when a truck bomb exploded in the heart of the capital of Kabul, killing 150 people.
The Afghan government officials are saying that all options are on table for the jailed terrorists as the Taliban group has stepped up efforts for the release of the group's members serving in the jails.
Earlier reports stated that gunmen had stormed the bank.
The bomb at New Kabul Bank tore through a queue of civilians and government employees who had lined up outside the bank to collect their salaries ahead of the Eid holidays marking the end of Ramadan. That conflict killed more than 50,000 civilians and gave rise to the Taliban.
Meanwhile, a militant attack Wednesday night in a mosque in eastern Afghanistan killed two members of the local council.
The Taliban terrorist group controls or influences more than 60 percent (nine of 14 districts) of Helmand, considered one of the deadliest provinces in the ongoing 16-year-old war for the US -led coalition, according to the USA military.
The Afghan conflict is the longest in United States history, with forces at war since the Taliban regime was ousted in 2001. The Taliban claimed responsibility for both attacks.
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