Car bomb in Afghanistan kills at least eight

A security official inspects the site of a car bomb attack in Herat province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan (Hamed Sarfarazi/AP)

A powerful car bomb killed at least eight people and injured 47 in Afghanistan’s western Herat province, officials said.

The death toll in the explosion late on Friday that also destroyed 14 houses is expected to rise because several of the injured were critical, said Rafiq Sherzai, a spokesman for the provincial hospital.