DHAKA: Many people are feared dead in a car bomb explosion at a busy market in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktika province.

The attacker drove a 4x4 vehicle into the market in Orgun district and detonated the explosives, a senior official told the BBC.

The market was crowded, full of people doing their shopping at the time of the attack, the official added.

Orgun is one of Paktika’s safest areas, though members of the Haqqani militant network are thought to have a presence.

The Jerusalem Post citing Police reports that a car packed with explosives exploded at a crowded market in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Paktika, killing at least 30 people and wounded 40.

‘Right now, police are taking all the wounded to hospitals,’ a local deputy police chief, Nissar Ahmad Abdulrahimzai, told media.

BDST: 1518 HRS, JUL 15, 2014