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At least five killed in blast in western Afghanistan KABUL, Sunday (AFP) At least five people were killed and 10 others injured Sunday when a bomb ripped through an old district of the western city of Herat, a local official told AFP. The explosion occurred at 9:30 am (0500 GMT) in Charsu area of the provincial capital, police chief Ziauddin Muhmoodi told AFP. The bomb was placed in a rubbish bin and "exploded, martyring five and injuring ten," Muhmoodi said. "Two children are among the five martyred," he added. Earlier a Taliban commander was killed when guerrillas attacked Afghan government security forces near the Pakistani border on Saturday, and militants also burnt down a U.S.-built school, officials said. A spate of guerrilla attacks hit the south of Afghanistan even as authorities announced an October 9 date for a landmark presidential election which the Taliban have vowed to derail. Up to 40 guerrillas attacked two government checkpoints in a village northeast of the border town of Spin Boldak early on Saturday, said Abdul Razzaq, commander of border security forces. He said a Taliban commander, Mullah Abdul Hayee, was killed. "His body is with us," he told Reuters adding that three Taliban fighters were wounded, one of them seriously, while no government men were killed. But a military commander in the area, Lal Jan, said four government men were killed in the clash. In another incident overnight, suspected Taliban guerrillas burned down a boys' school in the province of Kandahar that had recently been built by U.S. soldiers from the 20,000-strong U.S.-led force hunting the Taliban and their allies. The school in Maywand district was destroyed, but there were no casualties, said Kandahar corps commander Khan Mohammad Khan. |
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