'At Least 50' Killed In Afghan Market Blast

At least 50 people have been killed in a car bomb explosion at a busy market in eastern Afghanistan's Paktika province, the district governor says.

Officials say the attacker drove a 4x4 vehicle into the market in Orgun district and detonated the explosives.
The market was crowded, full of people doing their shopping at the time of the attack.
The eastern province of Paktika shares a border with Pakistan's restive and volatile tribal areas.
There have been no claims yet for Tuesday's attack.
Orgun is one of Paktika's safest areas, though members of the Haqqani militant network are thought to have a presence there.
The district governor of Orgun District, Mohammad Raza Kharoti, told the BBC that 50 people had been killed after a suicide attacker detonated his explosives whilst he was driving a car into the market.
He said most of those killed were shopkeepers and civilians "and people who were busy doing Ramadan shopping".
"The bazaar was packed with civilians," he added.
A spokesman for Afghanistan's defence ministry earlier told the BBC's Bilal Sarwary that soldiers had recovered 40 bodies from the rubble.
"Our soldiers are still trying to recover bodies. Almost all of the shops have fallen," General Zahir Azimi said.
Officials say that at least 30 people were also wounded in the attack.
Eyewitnesses described seeing police and security forces pursuing the attacker before he entered the busy market and detonated the explosives.
One doctor says Orgun civilian hospital, where he works, had become overcrowded with casualties.
"Orgun is bleeding. We have got children, men and women injured and dead," he said.
The attack comes hours after two men working for the outgoing president, Hamid Karzai, were killed by a roadside bomb in Kabul.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which targeted a vehicle carrying employees of the presidential palace to work.
Source:bbc.co.uk