Pictured: Eight-ton Taliban BOMB diffused moments before devastating explosion in biggest single discovery in Afghanistan
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | March 15, 2013 23:16
A truck bomb containing eight tonnes of explosives and capable of destroying an area nearly a mile wide has been defused inAfghanistan.
The bomb, which was wired and ready for detonation, is the single biggest discovery of its kind ever in the country.
Security forces linked the weapon to insurgents from the Islamist insurgent group, Haggani Network, which is connected to Al-Qaeda.
The bomb contained sodium chloride, ammonium nitrate, diesel and other chemicals, and was found in eastKabul.
Five insurgents were killed during the fighting that followed on Wednesday, while Two others have been arrested in connection with the bomb.
Maps and information on military locations were also discovered in the vehicle. The militants were planning to target a military facility inKabul, according to security officials.
National Directorate of Security (NDS) spokesman, Shafiquallah Tahiri, said today: ‘This truck bomb could have destroyed an area around 1.5 km in radius.
‘Now can you imagine that what kind of catastrophe this would be?
‘NDS forces discovered it due to prior information that the terrorists were organising an attack in a crowded part ofKabul.’
Although the discovering is the largest of its kind, it is not the biggest collection of explosives ever seized in the country.
In March last year, border police seized 17 tons of explosives in the southernprovinceofKandahar.
Suicide bombs and explosives hidden in vehicles remain a key security concern inAfghanistan, more than a decade after theU.S.led invasion.
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