Nine dead after taxi hits bomb in eastern Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan - A taxi carrying nine civilians hit a bomb buried in the road in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing everyone inside, police said.

Nangahar provincial police spokesman Ghafour Khan said the dead included a mother and her child.

The taxi was headed to a market in the district of Khogyani when the explosion ripped through the vehicle, Khan said.

No other details were immediately available.

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  Wreckage of a passenger taxi lies on the road as Afghan men stand nearby in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. A taxi carrying nine civilians hit a bomb buried in the road in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing everyone inside, police said. (AP Photo/ Rehmat Gul)

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  Wreckage of a passenger taxi lies on the road as Afghan men stand nearby in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. A taxi carrying nine civilians hit a bomb buried in the road in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing everyone inside, police said. (AP Photo/ Rehmat Gul)