...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...
province, 13 civilians were maimed in a boom-mobile explosion.
According to the local officials, the earth-shattering kaboom happened after the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
were trying to move a car full of explosives to the center of the province.
13 civilians were maimed in a boom-mobile explosion in Sar-e-Pul province, said Noor Agha Faizi, front man for the Sar-e-Pul police.
It occurred around 4:00 pm as the Taliban were moving the car from Sayyad district to the center of Sar-e-Pul province, according to the front man.