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Blast Occured Late Thursday Afternoon
MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan -- An explosion ripped through a market in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday, wounding 100 people, hospital officials and witnesses said.
The blast occurred late Thursday afternoon. One of the wounded said he saw a fragmentation grenade roll into the moneychangers' section of the central market before the explosion.
The local health minister, Mirwais Rabde Sherzod, called the explosion a terrorist act.
"The people who did this meant to destroy the peace and tranquility of our city," Sherzod said.
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