Two Afghan soldiers killed in Spin Boldak explosions
By Our Staff Correspondent
QUETTA, April 5: Two Afghan soldiers were killed and four injured in three bomb blasts in Spin Boldak, close to the Pakistani border.
“Three bombs exploded in the township with brief intervals at different places on Friday night,” an Afghan official of the Spin Boldak administration confirmed on Saturday. All the four injured were sent to Kandahar for treatment, he added.
The Afghan official blamed Taliban leader Hafiz Abdul Rahim for the blasts and said: “We have lost two soldiers in a bomb blast at the Commissioner Office around 10 pm. Two men of the Afghan Army were also injured.”
The second bomb went off near the building of Frontier Affairs Ministry, after 10 minutes of the first explosion. A barber shop close to the building was completely destroyed and two soldiers on duty at the official building were injured seriously.
Sources said that the third bomb exploded in the market area, which destroyed an audio and video cassettes shop.
#PAKTIA CLASH:# Five men were killed when two Afghan warlords clashed in Paktia province, PPI adds.
Some soldiers of Commander Ismail Adil went to Commander Abdul Rehman for some matter, but they clashed in which five men were killed and two wounded.
Another report said that Jillani Khan and his nephew, Daud, were shot dead in Orazgan province.
Some unknown persons brought Mr Khan and his nephew out of their home and shot them dead.
Mr Khan was a central member of Afghan Loya Jirga and a close associate of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
#JALALABAD:# Security commander Ajab Shah said that three people were injured in an explosion on Saturday at a border brigade compound in Jalalabad, AFP adds.
The blast occurred when a tractor labourers were using to clean the compound drove over some unexploded ordnance, the security commander said.
“Today, while workers were cleaning inside the 14th border brigade compound using a tractor, the tractor went over some ordnance which exploded and injured three labourers working nearby, including the driver,” he said.
Mr Shah said it was not clear whether the blast was caused by a mine or a rocket.
