KABUL: At least 20 people were killed and over 150 injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in the middle of a crowd of protestors in Kabul on Saturday.
?The dead and wounded were taken to Istiqlal hospital near the blast site,? a spokesman for the health ministry told AFP.
Meanwhile, interior ministry officials told Reuters that the explosion was caused by a suicide bomber.
Ambulances struggled to reach the site of the explosion as authorities had blocked key intersections overnight ahead of Saturday?s protest in a bid to prevent protesters from marching on the presidential palace.
Demonstrators had gathered to demand that a multi-million dollar power line pass through their electricity starved province of Bamiyan ? one of the most deprived in Afghanistan and home to the minority Hazaras.
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