28 dead, over 70 injured in Baghlan explosion

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By Sher Mohammad Jahish

PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok Afghan News) - At least 28 people were killed and more

than 70 wounded in a massive explosion in Khenjan district of the northern Baghlan

province Monday morning, officials and witnesses said.

 

Interior Ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal told Pajhwok Afghan News:

" Reports received from provincial police suggest the explosion took place

at an arms dump of a former commander Jalal Bajaga in Kohna Deh village. "

 

Mashal added the ministry had sent a team of investigators to the area to probe

the cause of the blast. " We will be in a position to give you an exact

picture after the investigators submit us a final report, " he continued.

 

But Dilbar Khan, a Khenjan military official, put the toll at 33 dead and 13

injured, saying the bang could be heard in 25-kilometer radius from the

village. He insisted the blast was triggered by a fire at explosive material

used in road building and stored in a house basement.

 

He believed saboteurs might have set alight the explosive powder stored in the

basement of a house belonging to Bajaga's brother. Dilbar's suspicion fell on

supporters of Taliban and al-Qaeda network.

 

The deputy commander feared the death toll might go up, in that several bodies

remained buried under the debris, but police said Provincial Reconstruction

Team officials had launched a rescue operation.

 

Baghlan police chief Fazluddin Ayar, confirming the explosion, said earlier in

the day six houses and a mosque had been destroyed. Without conjecturing what

caused the blast, he added there were conflicting eyewitness accounts.

 

" We have received contradictory reports from the scene, with one account

saying it was either a huge bomb explosion or a possible blast at an arms depot

in the region, " Ayar told Pajhwok Afghan News.

 

The house of a local commander Jalal Bajaga, who once led the Army Brigade No.

902 of Khenjan (now disbanded), was extensively damaged by the blast, which

took place at 6:00am. Another account which could not be independently

confirmed, Bajaga and his family members also suffered injuries in the

explosion.

 

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2005 18:21

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28 dead, over 70

injured in Baghlan explosion

 

By Sher

Mohammad Jahish

PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok Afghan News) - At least 28 people were killed and more

than 70 wounded in a massive explosion in Khenjan district of the northern

Baghlan province Monday morning, officials and witnesses said.

 

Interior Ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal told Pajhwok Afghan News:

" Reports received from provincial police suggest the explosion took place

at an arms dump of a former commander Jalal Bajaga in Kohna Deh village. "

 

Mashal added the ministry had sent a team of investigators to the area to probe

the cause of the blast. " We will be in a position to give you an exact

picture after the investigators submit us a final report, " he continued.

 

But Dilbar Khan, a Khenjan military official, put the toll at 33 dead and 13

injured, saying the bang could be heard in 25-kilometer radius from the

village. He insisted the blast was triggered by a fire at explosive material

used in road building and stored in a house basement.

 

He believed saboteurs might have set alight the explosive powder stored in the

basement of a house belonging to Bajaga's brother. Dilbar's suspicion fell on

supporters of Taliban and al-Qaeda network.

 

The deputy commander feared the death toll might go up, in that several bodies

remained buried under the debris, but police said Provincial Reconstruction

Team officials had launched a rescue operation.

 

Baghlan police chief Fazluddin Ayar, confirming the explosion, said earlier in

the day six houses and a mosque had been destroyed. Without conjecturing what

caused the blast, he added there were conflicting eyewitness accounts.

 

" We have received contradictory reports from the scene, with one account

saying it was either a huge bomb explosion or a possible blast at an arms depot

in the region, " Ayar told Pajhwok Afghan News.

 

The house of a local commander Jalal Bajaga, who once led the Army Brigade No.

902 of Khenjan (now disbanded), was extensively damaged by the blast, which

took place at 6:00am. Another account which could not be independently

confirmed, Bajaga and his family members also suffered injuries in the

explosion.

 

http://www.afghannews.net/index.php?action=show & type=news & id=2465

 

 

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is Sa/Ve/Ve/Mo/Ju.

 

 

 

 

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satva

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jorge Angelino

 

 

Rua da Sociedade Filarmónica

Perpétua Azeitonense, 29

2925-598 Azeitão

Portugal

 

 

 

 

jorge.angelino

 

 

 

 

 

 

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