Car Bomb Kills 27 in Afghanistan’s Eastern Logar Province

A huge car bomb blast killed at least 27 people and injured dozens more in Afghanistan’s eastern Logar province on Friday evening, with high school students among the casualties, local officials said.

People look out from a damaged buidling a day after a car bomb attack in the Pul-e-Alam area in Logar province on May 1, 2021. Photo by AFP via Getty Images

KABUL—A huge car bomb blast killed at least 27 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.