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At least 25 people, including a number of children, have been killed in an explosion in central Afghanistan, officials say. | |
The blast in Mohammad Agha district in Logar province happened after a truck carrying timber overturned on a road. | |
The vehicle blew up as the authorities were trying to remove it and clear the road, local police told the BBC. | |
Logar province lies immediately to the south of Kabul and is a major centre for the Taliban insurgency. | Logar province lies immediately to the south of Kabul and is a major centre for the Taliban insurgency. |
But the local authorities said that it was not yet clear if the blast was deliberate or if it was an accidental explosion. | |
The explosion happened on a main road from southern and eastern Afghanistan that leads into the capital, Kabul. | |
Four of the dead were police officers but the rest were civilians including many children, police authorities in Mohammad Agha told the BBC. | |
The governor of the Mohammad Agha district told the AFP news agency that 12 bodies had been identified and that most of them were school students. | |
"We are still trying to recover bodies from under the debris of collapsed shops. There are more people dead," Abdul Hameed Hamid said. | |
Reports say that some people have also been wounded but police say they cannot confirm the exact number of injuries. | |
A US military offensive against the Taliban is underway in Afghanistan troubled southern province of Helmand. |