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Five Killed In Car Bomb Explosion In Kabul
KABUL, March 17 (News Agencies) - Five people, including two children were killed and a dozen others wounded when a powerful car bomb rocked Kabul Saturday, officials and witnesses said.
The Taliban's official Radio Shariat said five people were killed when opposition forces carried out the explosion at the "behest of their foreign masters." Three Taliban soldiers were among those injured, according to the broadcast.
Three cars caught fire and several houses were badly damaged in the blast in the city's western section of Karte Parwan area.
Four people with serious injuries were admitted to the main Wazir Akbar Khan hospital.
The two boys died instantly, said one resident as he fixed his gate, shattered by the force of the blast.
"One died in my arms and the other in the hands of his mother. There were many people wounded lying around," he said, pointing at pools of blood close to two destroyed Taliban military jeeps and a charred taxicab.
Abdul Nafe, deputy police commander in the area, said the bomb had been planted in a taxi that was blown to pieces, damaging nearby houses and wounding passersby.
Taliban soldiers cordoned off the site and started searching vehicles.
"The opposition forces following their serious defeats and complete isolation from the people carried out another unforgivable crime," the ruling militia radio said.
The Afghan opposition denied the charges saying the bomb blast was a result of internal differences within the ruling Taliban militia.
Taliban police Saturday arrested an opposition saboteur with explosives, a wireless and two hand-grenades in Kabul city, Taliban radio reported.
Abdul Samad, living in Kabul City Microrayon Kona area, had concealed explosives in a steam cooker with the aim to detonate them in a "crowded" part of the city, the radio claimed.
Samad a native resident of the opposition-held Kapisa provinces was under investigation.
Last year, the Taliban publicly hanged four people accused of staging a string of bomb blasts in the capital.
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