Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan, said a roadside bomb was detonated during the crossing of the vehicle carrying a family heading for the wedding.

Khogyani said 10 people, including 6 women and 3 children from the same family, were killed in the attack.

Two other explosions were detonated in capital Kabul, killing a total of at least 15 people and wounding dozens of others, according to officials.

The first blast came when a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle hit a bus in eastern Kabul said Interior Minister spokesman Nasrat Rahimi, adding that the bus belongs to the minister of mines and petroleum.

Eight employees of the ministry of mines and petroleum were killed and 27 wounded in an attack on their bus, ministry officials said in a statement on Thursday. Five women and a child were among the dead.

Minutes after the blast, a suicide bomber blew himself up a few meters away, killing at least seven people and wounding 20.

"First a magnetic bomb pasted to a minibus exploded, then a suicide bomber blew himself near the bus attack site and the third blast happened when a car was blown up by unknown militants," said Nasrat Rahimi, a spokesman of the interior ministry in Kabul.

"The death toll could rise from all the three blasts," he said.

Meanwhile, at least 35 police officers have been killed in a Taliban attack on facilities in Afghanistan's northern province of Takhar, former district governor Sayed Mehrabuddin told DPA. 

At least 12 people, including six police officers, were also injured in the five-hour-long battle on Wednesday night in Ishkamish district, he said.

However, another official, provincial council member Mawlawi Keramatullah, said that the death toll was as high as 43 policemen with nine others missing. He said Taliban fighters overran the base and destroyed it before leaving. (ILKHA)