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Kabul blast kills 2
A bomb exploded at an Internet cafe in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday killing two Afghans and wounding five, police said.The cafe is at the front of a guest house used by Westerners in the heart of the city. "Two people have been killed and five wounded by the bomb blast," Kabul police chief Akram Khakrizwal told Reuters. Speaking to reporters in front of the damaged cafe, he later described the blast as an act of terrorism. Police were trying to determine if the explosive had been carried by a suicide attacker or placed in the cafe, he said. No one had claimed responsibility for Saturday's explosion and it was too early to say who may have been behind it, another police official said. No arrests had been made, he said. Most bomb attacks in Afghanistan have been blamed on Taliban insurgents, who have been fighting the U.S.-backed government and U.S.-led forces since their ouster, or allied Islamic militants, such as members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda. A Taliban spokesman, Abdul Latif Hakimi, who often claims responsibility for attacks on behalf of the Taliban, said by telephone from an undisclosed location he did not know if Taliban guerrillas had carried it the attack. Posted by: Dan Darling 2005-05-08 |
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