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Five militants killed in Afghanistan blast

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IANS Kabul

Five Taliban militants were killed and another injured when their explosive device went off prematurely in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province Saturday.

"Six Taliban insurgents were busy in planting a mine on a road in Dangam district this morning when the device exploded accidentally killing five rebels on the spot and badly injured another," Xinhua quoted a statement of the country's interior ministry released here as saying.

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First Published: May 24 2014 | 7:22 PM IST

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