KABUL (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 13th March, 2021) The number of people, who were killed by a car explosion in the northwestern Afghan city of Herat, has risen to seven, with 50 people injured, the Pajhwok news agency reported on Saturday, citing doctors.
Meanwhile, security sources told Sputnik that eight people were killed, including two policemen, 25 civilians were injured and 15 houses were destroyed in the attack. A source in the Herat hospital told Sputnik that 48 civilians were injured including children and women.
Herat Governor Wahid Qatali said that there was a one-year-old child among the dead.
The explosive-laden vehicle blasted near a police station in the 14th District of the city on Friday.
Violent clashes and bomb blasts continue to ravage Afghanistan despite the ongoing peace talks between the government and representatives of the Taliban Islamist movement in the Qatari capital of Doha.
