The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said that a car bomb has been detected and defused in Sar-e Pol province.
The police special operations unit detected and defused a bomb car in cooperation with highway police in Sar-e Pul, MoI spokesperson, Nasrat Rahimi said Tuesday night.
He noted that the Taliban group had placed around 1000kg of explosives inside a vehicle and were planning to carry out an attack by detonating the car bomb in Sar-e Pol province.
A suspect was detained during the operation in connection with explosive-laden vehicle, Rahimi added.
