The deceased has been identified as Ashok Kumar. District Emergency Operation Centre said that fire tenders were rushed to the site and the blaze was doused.
According to Deputy Commissioner of Police, GS Sidhu, the victim was sitting with his friends at a property dealer's office, during which some unidentified miscreants came and fired around three rounds at them.
Speaking to VOA, a local police spokesman, Mohammad Asif Waziri said that the blast had targeted a ceremony honouring the Afghan media in the provincial capital, Mazar-i-Sharif.
One person was killed while another was severely injured after a car rammed into two rickshaws at Thane's Eastern Express Highway on Wednesday night, police said.
A man was killed during clashes between two groups of people here in Eidgah Colony, police said adding that four people have been arrested so far in the case.
A youth was killed while 31 others were injured after a speeding four wheeler allegedly trampled a 'baraat' (groom's procession) in Uttarakhand's Haridwar on Friday night, police said.