A suicide bombing hit Logar province, 60 km south of Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, killing 15 people and injuring 45 others, an official said.

"The blast happened close to a hospital leaving 15 people dead and wounding 45 others, almost all of them civilians," spokesman for the provincial administration Deen Mohammad Darvish told Xinhua.

On the other hand, Abdul Wali Wakil, the head of Logar's Provincial Council, in talks with Xinhua, asserted that 30 people, all of them civilians including women and children were killed in the blast.

Several others were injured in the blast, he added.

Meantime, Sediq Sedeqi, the spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, in talks with Xinhua, confirmed the blast and said it was a suicide attack targeted at a clinic in Azra district killing and wounding several people.

Sedeqi said that complete details and the exact number of casualties would be released to media after completion of investigation.