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| Seven killed in north Afghanistan as blast hits vehicle with oil workers | |
| 2022-12-08 | |
| [DAILYTIMES.PK] At least seven people were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday when a blast hit a vehicle carrying oil workers in the northern province of Balkh, while another blast in the eastern city of Jalalabad injured six people. "Today at around 7am a blast took place in... Balkh on a bus which belonged to Hairatan oil employees," said Mohammad Asif Wazeri, police spokesperson for the northern province. At least six people were maimed, he said. Balkh province is home to one of Afghanistan’s main dry ports in the town of Hairatan, near the border with Uzbekistan, which has rail and road links to Central Asia. Wazeri said Balkh police were searching for a culprit behind the earth-shattering kaboom on the vehicle. It was not clear who the employees on the bus worked for. Another blast later in the day near the money exchange market in Jalalabad injured six people, according to police in Nangahar province.
According to Waziri, the explosion was a roadside bomb. “A blast occurred in PD3 of Mazar city. Unfortunately, the explosion hit a car carrying (Mines and Petroleum) Department employees while they were going to their jobs. According to the most recent information from the hospital, 7 people were killed, and 6 others are wounded,” Mohammad Asif Waziri, a spokesman of the Balkh security department, told TOLOnews. However, officials at the provincial hospital said that they received eight dead bodies and nine wounded. “Eight dead bodies and nine wounded people have been brought to the state hospital from today’s blast,” said Najibullah Tawana, head of the hospital. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast. | |
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