Bomb explodes at outdoor Afghan mosque, kills 4

A bomb has exploded at an outdoor mosque in northwest Afghanistan, killing four worshippers and wounding 14 others.

A bomb has exploded at an outdoor mosque in northwest Afghanistan, killing four worshippers and wounding 14 others.

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Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, an Afghan National Police spokesman in northern Afghanistan, said on Friday that the bomb was placed on a motorbike parked in a yard of the mosque in Faryab province.

In the city of Herat in western Afghanistan, police say a bomb on a small cart exploded on Friday, killing an Afghan woman and wounding seven other civilians.

Separately, the US-led coalition says a NATO service member was killed in an insurgent attack, raising to four the number of foreign troops killed on Thursday in southern Afghanistan.