adminA car packed with explosives has detonated as it was passing by a crowded market in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Paktika, killing at least 89 people and wounding dozens more, police said.“Right now, police are taking all the wounded to hospitals,” a local deputy police chief, Nissar Ahmad Abdulrahimzai, said yesterday.
The attack took place not far from the border with Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, where the military has been attacking hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban in the past few weeks, prompting rebels to retreat towards Afghanistan. “The explosion was so big it destroyed many shops.
Dozens of people are trapped under the roofs,” the district governor, said.-Reuters
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