Blast kills 15 children in Afghanistan
Provincial official says bomb rigged to rickshaw exploded in Taliban-controlled area
A bomb rigged to a rickshaw has killed at least 15 children and wounded 20 others in a Taliban-controlled area in eastern Afghanistan, a provincial official said, as violence in the war-weary country continued to surge.
The bomb exploded after a man driving a motorised rickshaw entered a village in the Gilan district to sell goods and was soon surrounded by children, according to Wahidullah Jumazada, a spokesman for the Ghazni provincial governor. He said the casualty toll could rise further.