An explosion near a US military convoy in northeastern Afghanistan has killed one child and wounded at least 49 other civilians, police said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blast on Tuesday in Asadabad, the provinical capital of Kunar province, but several witnesses said a US soldier had thrown a grenade into a crowd of people.
Ehsanullah Fazli, a doctor at the Asadabad hospital, said most of the wounded were children and some were in a critical condition.
"I was on my way to school. Their tyre burst, and then a soldier hurled a hand grenade from the convoy," Abdul Wahab, a 12-year-old boy, told the Reuters news agency as he lay in a hospital bed with shrapnel wounds in his legs.
Other victims at the Asadabad hospital gave similar accounts.
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