- Title: AFGHANISTAN: Car blast in Afghan capital kills at least one
- Date: 2nd August 2006
- Summary: WRECKAGE OF CAR/ STEERING WHEEL
- Embargoed: 17th August 2006 13:00
- Keywords:
- Location: Afghanistan
- Country: Afghanistan
- Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
- Reuters ID: LVA9EABO51T8I3IYHYHA3YDKHB39
- Story Text: A blast in a car killed at least one man and wounded two more in the Afghan capital on Wednesday (Aug 2), police said.
The cause of the explosion was unclear. The blast occurred on a main road to the south of the city centre.
"As a result of this explosion two people who were in the car one of them has died and the other has been wounded and also a passer-by was wounded, and we are still investigating the cause of the blast," said Mohammad Khan, a police official for Kabul.
Afghanistan is going through the bloodiest period of violence since U.S.-led coalition troops overthrew the Taliban government in 2001.
Taliban guerrillas are mostly active in southern and eastern areas where more than 1,700 people have been killed this year in attacks by militants, drug gangs and in operations by foreign forces.
Eight people were killed and 16 wounded in a car bomb in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Monday, the day when NATO forces took over security of the volatile south from U.S.-led forces.
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