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KABUL: An arms cache hidden by an Afghan warlord exploded in a bunker beneath his home on Monday, kiling 28 persons and devastating surrounding buildings, officials said. At least 70 persons were injured, and there were fears that the death toll could rise. The weapons were stored in Bashgah, a village in Baghlan province, 125 km north of Kabul, Interior Ministry spokesman Latfullah Mashal said. ``It's damaged the whole village, including the mosque and six houses,'' Mr. Mashal said. The cause of the blast was unclear. He said wounded survivors had been rushed to hospitals and forecast that the death toll would rise. Mr. Mashal said the cache was hidden in a bunker under the house of a warlord and former government militia commander Jalal Bashgah to conceal the weapons from a U.N.-sponsored disarmament drive. Bashgah was believed among those killed, Mr. Mashal said. Baghlan police chief Gen. Fazeluddin Ayar said the cache dated from ``a long time ago'' but had no further details. The country is awash with old weapons, many of them stored during the resistance against occupying Soviet forces during the 1980s.
Policemen killed in blast
In another incident, a remote-controlled bomb exploded near a police vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing two officers and injuring four more, an official said. Other blasts near a U.S. base and an American convoy caused no reported casualties. The policemen died when a roadside bomb exploded near Shah Wali Kot, 20 km north of Kandahar, mayor Ayatullah Khan said. Their injured colleagues were rushed to a Kandahar hospital with serious injuries, he said. Mr. Khan accused Taliban rebels of planting the bomb, which was made with a land mine, but provided no evidence to back up his assertion. Later on Monday morning, a blast hit a police pickup truck a few hundred metres from a U.S. base in Kandahar, but caused no casualties. — AP
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