One attacker was also slain and another wounded in cross-fire, provincial police authorities said.
The explosion in Spinbaldak set three cars on fire, the provincial governor, Asadullah Khalid, said in a telephone interview.
They travel to Australia, South Africa or New Zealand, warm-up with a series of fraught and sometimes overly violent matches against fired-up provincial sides, and then face their hosts in a three-match Test series of superb physicality, tension and excitement.
During Thursday's debate, about 90 members of Parliament walked out in protest over a provision that would give the prime minister a final say over the firing of provincial governors.
The government has also attempted to quell Hazara anger by offering the equivalent of $10,000 to the family of every bombing victim; on Tuesday it also fired the provincial police chief and replaced him with Mushtaq Sukhera, a senior counterterrorism police officer from Punjab Province.
He fired the provincial security minister and ordered an investigation to expose the perpetrators.
Working out of Hilla, Colonel Wheeler was responsible for outfitting four provincial fire departments with fire protection and rescue equipment, creating 19 democracy centers throughout the region, and working with farmers on irrigation systems, the Army official said.
From their high positions, they opened fire on the provincial police headquarters and the provincial governor's office nearby, said one shopkeeper, Zemaray, 22. "I saw one of them; his face was wrapped with his turban, and he was firing a rocket," said Zemaray, who like many Afghans uses one name.
Sources including the provincial fire department suggest there may have been an ammonia leak which either caused the fire or made fighting the blaze more hazardous.
At Lac La Biche, Bryan Davidson, a pilot with the provincial fire service, was geared up and waiting beside his helicopter.
