HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Nearly a dozen people were killed and 18 others wounded when the office of a gas company caught fire in the capital of western Herat province, officials said on Tuesday.
Ten children and a woman of a family were killed, provincial hospital spokesman Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai told Pajhwok Afghan News hours after the predawn incident in Kamar Kalagh area.
Four of the injured were in critical condition, he said, adding they had been sent abroad for medical treatment. The spokesman gave no further details of the inferno that continued till 3am.
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