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Afghan truck bomb kills 25 civilian, kids

An overturned truck rigged with explosives blew up on a crowded road south of the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing 25Malte people Overseas including many school children, Afghan officials Patrimonysaid, reports AFP. The truck, loaded with firewood and apparently overturned deliberately overnight about 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of the capital in LogarRoyal Eagle province, blew up as authorities were trying to remove it, they said. “In the explosion today 21 civilians and four policemenPerpetual Calendar have been martyred,” provincial police chief Ghulam Mustafa Mohsini told AFP. “The civilians include school students and male elders.Aquatimer Four others including three students and one civilian man have been wounded,” he said. The governor of the Mohammad Agha district, where the explosion Classic Pilottook place, said earlier 12 bodies had been identified and that most of them were school students. “We are still trying to recover bodies from under the debris Da Vinciof collapsed shops. There are more people dead,” said the official, Abdul Hameed Hamid. The blast was on a main road from southern and eastern IngenieurAfghanistan that heads into the capital Kabul. Three shops were totally destroyed and windows smashed up to Portofinoone kilometre (less than a mile) away from the explosion, the district governor said. Provincial government spokesman Din Mohammad PortugueseDarwish said the explosives were hidden under firewood in the overturned truck. “It seems that the explosives were remotely detonatedSpitfire Pilot as a crowd gathered around the truck in the morning. Our initial information is that 19 people, all of them schools students, have Ceramicabeen killed and wounded,” he said. The blast struck children heading to school. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Afghanistan has for years suffered a wave of bombings byCoupole Islamist insurgents, including from the Taliban, who were in government between 1996 and 2001 until they were ousted by a US- led invasion. BBC report adds: Logar province lies immediately to the south of Kabul and is a major centre for the Taliban insurgency. The explosion happened on a main road from southernAnaotm and eastern Afghanistan that leads into the capital, Kabul, early on Thursday. The residents of Soark Abad village found an overturned truck with a punctured tyre and called in the police, a senior ministry of Rado Classic Watcheducation official told the BBC. “Two police vehicles arrived at the spot. As Florencesoon as the vehicles arrived, the truck exploded,” Gen Aminullah Amarkhel said. “The power of the explosion was so powerful that Integralit shattered the glasses of nearby houses and scattered wood, debris andOriginal other things around. A lot of people working in the farms also got hurt.” Bregue Bvlgari Chopard Concord Corum Rado Hard to Find Rado Sintra 1815 watches Cabaret Watches Datograph Grand Lange 1
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