Car bomb at guest house kills 30 in Afghanistan

(FASTNEWS | AFGHANISTAN) – A huge car bomb blast killed at least 30 people and injured dozens more in Afghanistan’s eastern Logar province on Friday evening, with high school students among the casualties, local officials said.   

The car packed with explosives detonated in Logar’s capital of Pul-e Alam near the house of the former head of the provincial council, Didar Lawang, the spokesman for Logar’s governor, said.

The house also operated as a guesthouse and the blast had struck just as guests were breaking their fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, according to the head of Logar’s provincial council, Hasibullah Stanekzai, who told Reuters 27 people had been killed and dozens more wounded.

High school students are among 30 people killed in the car bombing, local officials say.

The bomb went off late on Friday close to a guesthouse where the students were reportedly staying in Pul-e-Alam, the capital of eastern Logar province.

Witnesses described roofs collapsing and victims being trapped under the debris accordimng to foreign media reports.

No group has said it was behind the blast as people broke their fast in the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.