Two bombs go off in Afghanistan
Two small bombs exploded in western Afghanistan, causing no casualties or damage, in attacks thought to be linked to a local power struggle, officials said today.
The blasts occurred late yesterday outside the police chief’s office and on a roadside near the governor’s residence in the capital of Heart province, said provincial Governor Sayed Hussain Anwari.
The bombs were thought to have been laid by local people embroiled in a political struggle between local strongmen, Anwari said. No suspects have been arrested, but an investigation is underway, he said.
A local police official who gave his name only as Sardar said four people had been arrested and were being interrogated. Security officials also seized bombs in other parts of Heart, he said, without elaborating.
On Tuesday, a suspected suicide bomber died in a failed assassination attempt against a district chief in the region.
Herat has been spared much of the violence that has wracked Afghanistan’s southern and eastern provinces since March. More than 700 people have died in an unprecedented surge of killings ahead of legislative elections in September.
