Bomb blast in Afghanistan kills 10

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KABUL, Aug 3 (AP): The Taliban killed 10 people and critically injured a local police chief in western Afghanistan's main city Monday with a remote-controlled bomb hidden in a trash can, officials said.
The bomb was set on a crowded street near a fruit market in Herat. It appeared to target the police chief for nearby Injil district who was driving into town, said Raouf Ahmedi, the top police spokesman in western Afghanistan.
He said the district chief, Mohammad Issa, was being transferred to a NATO-run hospital in critical condition.
Local police officials had initially reported 12 dead in the explosion. But the head of the regional health department, Doctor Ghulam Said Rashid, confirmed there were 10 killed: a woman, a young girl, six men and two police officers.