The vehicle, belonging to a Danish de-mining agency, had gone to a minefield near Bagram Air Base just north of the capital to collect the body of an Afghan who had died a few minutes previously when an anti-personnel mine went off.

In a separate incident in the west of Kabul, one Afghan man died and a British peacekeeper was slightly hurt when an explosive device hidden in a wooden handcart went off.

As the Danish ambulance headed back to Kabul after picking up the body, it hit an anti-tank mine, triggering an explosion which killed three people on board and injured 17 passengers and bystanders.

All that was left of the vehicle was a tangle of blackened metal on the side of the road.

All four dead had been working for the Afghan Mine Clearance Planning Agency (MCPA). Five MCPA staff were injured, as were six Afghans working for the Danish De-Mining Group (DDG) and six bystanders in a nearby crowded bazaar.

(China Daily September 2, 2002)