(MENAFN) The agency declared that three Afghan intelligence agency personnel have died as two more were injured in a car bomb explosion outside a provincial intelligence agency building in Herat city, capital of western province of Herat.
The NDS, the country's primary intelligence agency confirmed: "A National Directorate of Security (NDS) technical team was defusing a found suspected vehicle roughly at 4:50 p.m. local time in Herat city."
"The personnel defused parts of explosives in the car, but unfortunately a blast occurred leaving the casualties,"
Unofficial sources revealed that the blast took place when a military vehicle was hijacked by Taliban militants earlier and security forces captured the vehicle Friday and drove to provincial NDS department before the explosion devastated the vehicle.
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