Explosion of Afghan's warlord's weapons kills 28

A warlord’s secret weapons cache exploded in a remote Afghan village today, flattening nearby houses and a mosque and killing at least 28 people in what appeared to be the deadliest accident of its kind since the fall of the Taliban.

The blast highlighted the dangers in a country still awash with old arms piled up in a quarter-century of fighting, and the immense task facing Afghan and UN officials trying to disarm commanders wary of rivals and the country’s US-backed government.