KABUL (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 17th November, 2019) At least ten people were injured in a car explosion in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan early Sunday, medics told Sputnik, while a civilian source indicated that children were among those injured in the explosion.
"Following a bomb blast in Herat province ten injured persons were taken [to a hospital] for treatment," Abdul Hakim, the director of the hospital told Sputnik.
The blast was caused by a magnetic mine, according to police spokesman Abdul Ahad Wali Zada.
Meanwhile, another bomb blast rocked a local market in Mazar Sharif city in Balkh province in the north of the country on Saturday evening. At least one child was injured in the explosion.
