A man died in a bomb blast on Sunday near the Afghanistan border in an apparent failed attack against a fuel truck supplying US forces in Afghanistan, officials and witnesses said. Two people were wounded in the blast at the Chaman border post, where private oil tankers were waiting en route to a US base in south Afghanistan's Kandahar province, said military spokesman Major Mohammad Shehzad.
"One person was killed and two others, including a 22-year-old woman, were injured," he said.
A security official said: "We have arrested one person. We are investigating if the detained person was an accomplice of the terrorist."
Fuel truck driver Mir Alam told reporters the bomber apparently died when the device he carried exploded prematurely.
"A man came close to our tanker and the device went off. He died in the blast," Alam said, adding that the man's body was blown to pieces.
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