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Afghan truck bomb kills 25: police
AFP - Friday, July 10
MOHAMMAD AGHA, Afghanistan (AFP) - - A truck rigged with explosives blew up near Kabul on Thursday killing 25 people including many students in one of the deadliest blasts in Afghanistan this year, police said.
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And, in a sign that violence is picking up ahead of elections next month, the military reported that roadside bomb attacks killed three NATO soldiers. Around 70 militants have also been killed in fighting over the last 24 hours.
The truck, loaded with firewood, overturned overnight about 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of the capital in Logar province and later exploded as authorities were trying to remove it.
"In the explosion today 21 civilians and four policemen have been martyred," provincial police chief Ghulam Mustafa Mohsini told AFP.
Police had gone to remove the truck in the small district centre early in the morning, interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said.
"As police arrived at the scene the truck exploded," Bashary told AFP.
The education ministry was working to confirm how many students were killed but believed at least 13 died, spokesman Asif Nang said at the scene.
The students came from middle and high schools between 500 metres (546 yards) and 800 metres away, provincial education director Kamaluddin Zadran told AFP.
"We cannot give you accurate information on their ages because the accurate information is not gathered," he said. "It was very painful incident -- lots of people and lots of families are in sorrow."
Nothing remained of the truck and three nearby shops were reduced to rubble, an AFP reporter said.
Police said some bodies were burned beyond recognition.
Distraught shopkeeper Zikrya Ahmad Zai said he lost two sons, aged 10 and 12, and two of this brothers in the blast.
"When we came out this morning, the truck was turned over on the road and was loaded with wood. We thought they would come and take it away. I came to my house for tea and two of my brothers were in the shop with my two sons.
"There was a bang and we ran here -- there was rubble and the dead."
President Hamid Karzai, who is seeking re-election next month, condemned the blast as "cowardly, and against human and Islamic values".
It was not clear if the truck was destined for the capital or had been intended to explode where it did, officials said. It blew up on a main road from southern and eastern Afghanistan that heads into Kabul.
The vehicle appeared to have been overturned deliberately, said provincial government spokesman Din Mohammad Darwish.
"It seems that the explosives were remotely detonated as a crowd gathered around the truck in the morning," he said.
Afghanistan has for years suffered a wave of bombings by Islamist insurgents, including those waged by the Taliban, who were in government between 1996 and 2001 until they were ousted by a US-led invasion.
The rising violence prompted US President Barack Obama to pledge 21,000 more troops, most of whom are already in the country, as part of a sweeping new strategy to try to stabilise the country ahead of presidential and provincial council elections next month.
Nearly 4,000 newly deployed US Marines last week launched a major operation in Taliban strongholds in the southern province of Helmand where thousands of British troops are also operating.
Clashes with troops killed 27 suspected militants in Helmand overnight, according to an Afghan defence ministry statement providing no further details.
Two NATO soldiers were killed by a bomb attack in the south on Wednesday, and another on Thursday, said the force under which the Marines and British troops are serving.
On Thursday, militants attacked a district headquarters in the southern province of Zabul, sparking a clash in which 15 Taliban were killed, provincial police chief Abdul Rehman Sarjung told AFP.
In the same province, 30 insurgents planting bombs in a road were killed in an Afghan military ambush, said the army commander for southern Afghanistan, General Shair Mohammad Zazai.
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