Four killed in Afghanistan explosion

October 8th, 2009 KABUL - No Indians had been killed in the suicide blast outside the Indian embassy here Thursday morning but some had been injured, Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Jayant Prasad said. He described the explosion as being "of the same intensity" as the July 7, 2008 bombing in which 44 people, including two Indian diplomats, had been killed.

September 2nd, 2009 Explosion rips through crowd in east AfghanistanKABUL — Officials say an explosion has ripped through a crowd of government officials one province east of Kabul. Sayed Ahmad Safi, the spokesman for the governor of Laghman, says government officials were inaugurating a mosque in the city of Mehterlam — 60 miles (100 kilometers) east of Kabul — when the explosion happened.

August 21st, 2009 KABUL - One NATO-led US and two British soldiers were killed in separate roadside bomb blasts in southern and eastern Afghanistan, officials said Friday. The two British soldiers were killed Thursday, the same day as Taliban conducted more than 130 attacks during the country's presidential and provincial elections.

August 11th, 2009 12 Taliban fighters killed in Afghan clashKABUL — An Afghan official says clashes and airstrikes in southern Afghanistan have killed a dozen Taliban fighters. Wazir Khan says the militants were killed late Monday inside a compound in an area bordering Ghazni and Zabul provinces.

July 9th, 2009 KABUL — A massive blast triggered Thursday in an overturned timber truck in central Afghanistan killed 25 people, destroyed shops and propelled pieces of the vehicle more than a mile (about 2 kilometers) away, officials said. The explosion killed 21 civilians and four policemen in Logar province, south of Kabul, and also demolished nearby dairy shops, ministry spokesman Zemerai Bashary said.

July 1st, 2009 2 NATO troops killed in AfghanistanKABUL — NATO said an explosion Wednesday in southern Afghanistan killed two of its troops and wounded six others. The military alliance did not reveal the troops' nationalities or the exact location of the blast.

March 25th, 2009 KABUL - Nine civilians were killed and seven others wounded Wednesday when their vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, a senior police official said. The blast occurred in Sabari district of the south-eastern province of Khost when a bus en route to the provincial capital of the same name was struck by a roadside bomb, police chief Abdul Qayoom Baqizoy said.

March 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - One person was killed and several others were injured in an explosion at a police station here Monday. The explosion occurred at a police station in sector G-7 near Sitara Market.

March 24th, 2009 BAGHDAD - Five people were killed and 12 injured in a bomb explosion on the outskirts of Iraqi capital Monday, the interior ministry said. The blast took place near a car repair workshop in the Abu Ghraib area, some 15 km west of Baghdad, it said.

March 15th, 2009 British soldier killed in AfghanistanLONDON — Britain's defense ministry says a soldier has been killed while on patrol in southern Afghanistan. The ministry said the soldier, from 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, died Sunday in an explosion.

February 10th, 2009 KABUL - An explosion rocked this Afghanistan capital Kabul Wednesday morning. No officials were immediately available to make comment.

January 8th, 2009 COLOMBO - Three Air Force personnel and four civilians were killed Friday morning in a Claymore mine explosion in eastern Sri Lanka, defence officials said.

January 3rd, 2009 JINAN - At least 13 people have been killed in an explosion at an illegal fireworks plant in eastern China, officials said Sunday. The blast occurred at about 4:30 p.m.

December 27th, 2008 TORONTO - Two more Canadian soldiers have been killed in a roadside explosion in Afghanistan, making December a deadly month for its six-year-old Afghan mission. The Canadian defence ministry said the soldiers, as well as a member of the Afghan National Police and one Afghan interpreter, were killed Saturday when an explosive device detonated in their vicinity in the Panjway district of Kandahar province.

December 26th, 2008 BAGHDAD - At least 24 people were killed and 50 wounded in a car bomb explosion in northern Baghdad Saturday, the interior ministry said. 'The car bomb explosion in Kadhmiyah killed 24 people and wounded 50,' it said.