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100 Hurt in Mazar-e-Sharif Blast

Jeffery Schaeffer | Associated Press | December 20, 2001

"An explosion ripped through the central market in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday, injuring 100 people, six of them seriously, according to hospital officials and witnesses. One of the wounded said he had seen a 32-piece fragmentation grenade rolled into the moneychangers' section of the bazaar just before the late afternoon blast. There was no known suspect in the attack."
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