Nine people have been injured in a landmine explosion in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, a local official says.

The incident took place when a vehicle ran over a landmine in the Achin district of Nangarhar on Wednesday afternoon, said Achin’s Governor Haji Ghalib Mujahid.

He also added that the wounded included four women and a child.

In a separate incident on Wednesday, Mujahid said, eight Takfiri Daesh terrorists were killed and 10 others injured in a clash with security forces in Achin.

Provincial police spokesman Colonel Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal said a number of terrorist hideouts and weapons had been destroyed in recent operations in Achin.

Nangarhar has been witnessing a surge in the presence of Daesh terrorists in recent months.

The terrorists, mainly operating in Iraq and Syria, have reportedly been recruiting militants in Afghanistan over the past months in what is believed to be aimed at establishing sanctuaries in areas traditionally seen as the strongholds of Taliban militants.

On June 16, the Taliban warned Daesh ringleader Ibrahim al-Samarrai, aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, against “waging a parallel insurgency in Afghanistan.” The militant group asked the Daesh leader to keep his men out of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has been the scene of violence since the US and its allies invaded the country as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror in 2001, which also saw the removal of the Taliban from power.