Jawed Basharat, spokesman for the provincial police chief in Baghlan province, said a bomb rigged to a motorcycle and detonated by remote control killed five people and wounded seven others today. Basharat added that the attack seemed to be targeting a passing Afghan army vehicle, but missed.
Meanwhile 10 other people, nine civilians and a police officer, were wounded in another blast in the neighboring Kunduz province, said Sayed Sarwar Hussaini, the provincial police spokesman.