QUETTA, April 7: An Afghan refugee was killed on Monday and five others were injured, two of them seriously, in an explosion in Waash, a mandi at the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan near Chaman, some 150km north of here.

“An anti-aircraft shell exploded when some labourers were unloading a scrap truck which had come from Kandahar in Waash Mandi,” official sources confirmed to Dawn on telephone and added that six persons received injuries who were rushed to the Civil Hospital Chaman. Later, one of the injured died in the hospital.

The sources said all the victims had come from a refugee camp set up in the waiting area of Killi Fazo, Afghanistan.

Hospital sources said two seriously injured refugees had been shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta as they had received head injuries.

On Saturday last, three bomb blasts took place in Spin Boldak, the first township of the southern Afghanistan, which claimed two lives.