Two guards killed in Afghan bank attack

KABUL: Two security guards were killed Sunday in a bomb blast targeting an Afghan bank where government employees were thought to be collecting their wages, police said.

The blast happened after explosives were left in a bag at the gates of a branch of a bank in Maydan Shahr city, capital of Wardak province in central Afghanistan. "It exploded at around 11:50am (0740 GMT) resulting in the martyrdom of two bank security guards," the interior ministry said in a statement.

It is thought that the intended target was government employees who were collecting their salaries from the bank.