Twenty four people were injured on Monday as w twin bomb blasts tore through a market in northern Afghanistan’s Baghlan province.

Twenty four people were injured on Monday as w twin bomb blasts tore through a market in northern Afghanistan’s Baghlan province.

Over half of the injured were school children, officials said, adding that seven security personnel, including two senior district police officials, were also among the casualties.

"Overall we have 24 admitted to the hospital, 17 civilians, 13 of them are school students," said Abdul Qahar Qanit, a doctor in the local hospital.

The explosions occurred one after another, with the second coming after security forces arrived to investigate the first blast, local administration chief Amir Gul told Agence France Press.

"There was a blast in Sher Market in Baghlan-i-Markazi. The first blast occurred and wounded some civilians, the second one followed shortly after the first one," he said.

Gul said earlier that 18 people, five of them members of the Afghan security forces, had been injured, adding that the explosions were from improvised explosive devices rather than suicide bombers.