Security officials in Balkh province say that seven members of a family were shot dead under mysterious circumstances in Chamtal district of Balkh province. Mohammad Asaf Waziri, Balkh police spokesman, says the incident took place on Friday night. According to Waziri, children and women were among the victims. Waziri says an investigation is being carried
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) -At least seven people were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday when a blast hit a vehicle carrying oil workers in the northern province of Balkh, while another blast in the eastern city of Jalalabad injured six people. Today at around 7 a.m. a blast took place in .Balkh on a bus which belonged to Hairatan oil employees, said Mohammad Asif Wazeri, police spokesperson for the northern province. At least six people were wounded, he said. Balkh province is home to one of Afghanistan s main dry ports in the town of Hairatan, near the border with Uzbekistan, which has rail and road links to Central Asia. Wazeri said Balkh police was searching for a culprit behind the explosion on the vehicle. It was not clear who the employees on the bus worked for. Another blast later in the day near the money exchange market in Jalalabad injured six people, according to police in Nangahar province. The cause of both blasts was not immediately clear. (Reporting by Moham