Thursday, 8 August 2013

Explosion in Afghan graveyard kills 10 women


JALALABAD: An explosion killed at least 10 women in a graveyard in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said, as the country celebrated the Eid-ul-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramazan. "An explosion happened in a graveyard," Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal, police spokesman for Nangarhar province, told AFP. "Ten women were killed in the blast, two other women and a child were also wounded." (AFP)