KABUL (Xinhua) – At least two people were killed and six others injured in a blast in east Afghanistan’s Parwan province, Fazal Reem Maskin Yar, spokesman of the provincial police department, said on Saturday.
The incident took place in an iron market in Charikar City, the provincial capital of Parwan on Saturday afternoon, the official said.
The incident is still under investigation and possible results will be announced to the public, he said.
Afghanistan is one of the most landmine-contaminated countries in the world, where unexploded ordnances and landmines left over from the past four decades of wars, claim a huge amount of lives, mostly children.
In another incident a day earlier, amarket caught fire in Spin Boldak district of southern Kandahar province, causing huge damage, provincial government spokesman Mawlawi Ezam said.
The fire erupted in the morning rush hour and turned more than 50 containers to ashes until 11 a.m. local time in the market called Wiksh Bazaar, the official added.
Commercial goods including second-hand cars, spare parts and other data-x-items were in the market, the official said, adding billions of U.S. dollars feared to have been damaged to the market.
Firefighters had been striving to turn off the fire, the official said, adding the reason for the fire has yet to be determined.