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Summary
A massive bomb blast triggered in central Afghanistan killed 25 people including primary school students, destroying shops and leaving pieces of the vehicle carrying the explosives more than a mile away. The bomb was detonated in a timber truck overturned on the side of the road, killing 21 civilians and four policemen in Logar province, south of Kabul, ministry spokesman Zemerai Bashary said. At least nine of those killed were children from a nearby school, said Kaamaluddin Zadran, a provincial official. Authorities said they suspected the truck may have been heading into Kabul with the explosives, but that it overturned on the main road between Logar province and the capital late Wednesday, provincial police chief Mustafa Khan said.
