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Two bicycle bombs kill at least 3 in east Afghanistan
Two remote-controlled bombs attached to bicycles exploded in separate instances in different parts of a city in eastern Afghanistan killed at least three people and wounded more than two dozen others.
Ghulam Aziz Ghranai, police chief in Laghman province, said the first morning explosion took place as vehicles queued up to be searched at a police checkpoint on a road leading into the provincial capital of Mehtarlam.
Deputy provincial governor Edayutullah Qalanderzai said a woman, a child and an elderly man were killed and 25 others were wounded, including one Afghan policeman.
The second explosion, which wounded four other civilians, occurred inside the city about half a mile (one kilometer) from the first blast, Qalanderzai said.
Mehtarlam is about 60 miles (100 kilometers) east of Kabul.
