Two bombs targeted for a group of lawmakers in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday killed at least 64 people, including five members of parliament, in the deadliest attack in the country since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
The bombs exploded outside a sugar factory in the northern province of Baghlan while children, elderly people and government officials awaited the arrival of the parliament members.
Baghlan lies about 95 miles north of Kabul.
If the death toll is confirmed, the attack would be the deadliest in Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. Taliban bombers have killed governors in the past, but never have insurgents killed so many high-ranking officials in one attack.
The group that inhibits the northern region of Afghanistan where the bomb exploded, Hezb-i-Islami, whose fugitive leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an ethnic Pashtun, is allied to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida but has denied any ties to bomb.
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