ISLAMABAD, Sept 8: A bomb explosion destroyed a music shop and wounded 12 people in the eastern Afghanistan town of Khost on Sunday, a news report said.

“It was an inhuman act. The Taliban and Al Qaeda could be behind it,” a local official, Mohammad Khan Gurbuz, told the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) agency.

The latest incident came in the wake of the car-bomb attack near the ministries of information and culture in Kabul on Thursday.

Khost is situated in a turbulent region where United States forces and their Afghan allies are hunting for the remnants of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.—dpa

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