A bicycle bomb Wednesday wounded at least 14 people at a busy market in western Afghanistan as Muslims prepared to celebrate the end of fasting month, officials said. The bombing in Herat city comes a day after a series of attacks killed up to 50 people across the war-torn country. “Fourteen civilians were injured when the bomb attached to a bicycle exploded in Herat city,” provincial police chief Sayed Abdul Ghafar Sayedzada told AFP. Provincial governor’s spokesman Moyeedin Noori said the bomb was detonated remotely. “The explosion happened in a market where the crowd of people were shopping for Eid,” Noori said. Hospital official Mohammad Rafiq Shirzai, however, said 18 people were wounded including three women.
