The blast occurred in Ab Band district of Ghazni at around 4.30 a.m. on Saturday when a suicide bomber driving a car full of explosives blasted near the first gate of the district building, Ghazni Police Chief Khalid Wardak said.
The bomb detonators were found at the Central Colombo bus station in Pettah area. The police initially found 12 bomb detonators scattered on the ground. A further search revealed 75 more, a police statement said.
State authorities did not identify who was behind the attack. No militant group immediately took responsibility for the attack.
Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor, said the first bomb detonated near a school in the provincial capital Jalalabad. That blast was later followed by two others in Behsud district, also near two schools.
Officials of the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) confirmed that it was a suicide blast.
Awami National Party (ANP) candidate Barrister Haroon Bilour was among the deceased. Bilour was set to contest the July 25 elections from Peshawar's PK-78 constituency in Pakistan.
This is the second such attack in the Iraqi capital in a span of three days. The deadly incident that shook the capital was reported from Tayeran Square.
Suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in western Kabul has killed at least 30 people and wounded 45.
Boko Haram's use of women as bombers increased following the abduction of 276 female students aged between 16 and 18 from their school dormitories in Chibok in April 2014, according to the study.
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