Kabul: Five men were detained in Kabul with 10,000 kilograms of material which could be used in explosives, intelligence officials said.
The men intended to use the material in multiple attacks in crowded areas, according to the officials.
“If this amount of explosives had been used, it could have caused large-scale bloodshed,” Nazari, spokesman for the National Directorate of Security, said on Saturday.
He said three of the men detained were Pakistani citizens, while two were Afghans.
In a news conference, intelligence officials said the material had been found on a truck registered in Pakistan. About 400 sacks were found hidden under potato bags, the officials said.
One of the arrested Afghans was allegedly a Taliban commander and two of the Pakistanis had links to the Pakistani intelligence agency, the officials alleged.
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