KABUL, March 24: An explosion at a store of confiscated weapons at an Afghan military base killed two people and injured 40, police said on Friday. The accidental blast on Thursday evening damaged houses near the base in the town of Jabul Saraj, north of the capital Kabul, said Abdul Rahman Sayedkhail, police chief of Parwan province.
The cause of the blast was being investigated but Sayedkhail ruled out sabotage. “It was the carelessness of the soldiers that caused the explosion,” he said.—Reuters
