Massive blast in central Afghanistan kills 25

KABUL – A massive bomb blast in central Afghanistan killed 25 people including 13 primary school students yesterday, destroying shops and scattering pieces of the vehicle that carried the explosives over a huge area.

Another bombing in the south killed two American troops.The bomb in central Afghanistan was detonated after a truck carrying timber overturned, killing 21 civilians and four policemen in Logar province, south of Kabul, ministry spokesman Zemerai Bashary said. Another two schoolchildren were wounded and three others were missing, said Kamaluddin Zadran a provincial official.Provincial police chief Mustafa Khan said the truck overturned late on Wednesday as it travelled the main road from Logar to Kabul.After police arrived to clear the road yesterday morning, militants apparently remotely detonated a bomb planted in the back of the truck among the timber, he said.The power of the blast in Mohammad Agha district, close to shops that collect milk from farmers, sent truck pieces flying more than two kilometres, said a second police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.- Nampa-AP