Massive bomb blast in central Afghanistan kills 25

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Source: AP/Yahoo News

KABUL – A massive bomb blast Thursday in central Afghanistan killed 25 people including primary school students, destroying shops and scattering pieces of the vehicle that carried the explosives more than a mile away, police said. Another bombing in the south killed two NATO soldiers.

The central Afghanistan bomb was detonated in a stationary timber truck, killing 21 civilians and four policemen in Logar province, south of Kabul, ministry spokesman Zemerai Bashary said. At least nine of those killed were children from a nearby school, said Kamaluddin Zadran, a provincial official.

Provincial police chief Mustafa Khan said the truck had overturned on late Wednesday as it headed on the main road from Logar to Kabul. After police arrived to clear the road on Thursday morning, militants apparently remotely detonated a bomb planted in the back of the truck among the timber, he said.

The power of the blast sent truck pieces flying more than a mile (2 kilometers), another police official said.


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[truthisfreedom]

1. sucks.

[Chemisse]

2. I am relieved that we were not responsible anyway

[didact]

3. Yes, Me too.

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