ISLAMABAD, June 28 Kyodo (EDS: AD...

ISLAMABAD, June 28 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING of recent origin INFORMATION)

A munitions depository in southern Afghanistan exploded early Friday, killing at least 10 nation according to reports from the spectacle of the blast.

The explosion of the weapons cache seized from the Taliban after the Islamic fundamentalist cluster fell from power late last year occurr in the Kandahar provincial town of Spin Boldok, about 3 kilometers northwest of the Pakistani border.

World subsistence Program spokesman Khaled Mansour told CNN that the organization was ''very lucky'' as single one of its staff who work in a nearby WFP warehouse was injured. That worker was injured while in a residential area.

WFP facilities supported material damage, but some 800 tons of stored bread was saved, he said.

CNN cited reports as saying as many as 50 tribe might be missing from the explosion.

Pakistani Defense Ministry officials in Islamabad said they received reports that an al-Qaida fighter blew up the ammunition storehouse and that two people were killed and at least 28 injured.

The officials said several seriously injured were brought for hospitalization to the Pakistani border town of Chaman.

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