Suicide bombing and gun battle claimed the lives of five people and injured nine others in Shindand district of western Afghanistan’s Herat province on Thursday, a police official said.
The blast occurred closed to a base of the national army, the official said, added that gunshots have been continuing.
Sayed Ahmad Mohammadi, police spokesman of Herat confirmed the incident and said the terrorists planted explosive device in a rickshaw and detonated it closed a checkpoint of the national army, which inflicted casualties.
