Shah Mahmood Aryan, the spokesman for the Paktika police, told the Tolo News broadcaster that the incident had occurred on Monday morning local time. As a local resident tried to defuse the ordinance that he found at a market located in Paktika's Janikhel district, it detonated causing multiple deaths and casualties.
All the injured people have been taken to hospital, Aryan added.
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Officials from the district hospital specified that those wounded who were in critical condition were transported to the country's capital of Kabul to undergo treatment there.