An accidental blast occurred as some policemen were playing with explosion materials at a police compound of southern Afghan Zabul province on Thursday morning, killing a district police chief and his eight-year-old son, a spokesman for provincial administration said.
"The explosion materials the policemen were handling suddenly exploded as Daichopan district police chief Ebrahim Khan and others were sitting inside the district compound," Gulab Shah Ali Khel, spokesman for Zabul's governor, told Xinhua.
Three policemen were also injured in the blast, he said.
Source:Xinhua
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