Blast Hits Afghanistan: One Killed, 5 Injured

Local Editor

An explosion rocked Afghanistan's western city of Heart, leaving one civilian dead and five others, including a police force member, wounded.

Herat police said the blast took place close to a compound belonging to the Afghan army on Herat's Minarets Road on Saturday morning. Officials said the explosives were placed in a hand cart.

The Public Health Directorate in Herat said two of those injured in the explosion were in critical condition.

No individual or group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it bears the hallmark of those carried out by members of the Taliban militant group.

Herat is among the relatively calm provinces in Afghanistan, but militants are active in the region's several remote districts.

Afghanistan faces a security challenge years after the United States and its allies invaded the country in 2001 as part of Washington's so-called war on terror.

The offensive removed the Taliban from power, but many areas in the country are still beset with insecurity.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team