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Passer by killed, policeman injured
 JALALABAD: A passer by was killed and a policeman injured on Saturday by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, officials said, changing their earlier statement that it was a suicide attack. The explosion caused by a remote control bomb targeted a police vehicle in the eastern city of Jalalabad, local police spokesman Ghafoor Khan said. He had earlier said a suicide bomber blew himself up near a police van. "The person whose body was torn into pieces appears to be a student," Khan said adding that police found books lying around the mutilated body. The latest attack comes two days after a deadly suicide car bomb in southern Uruzgan, which killed 10 people and wounded dozens. A purported spokesman for ousted Taliban militia, Mohammad Anif, in a telephone call to AFP from an undisclosed location, claimed responsibility for the attack and said it was a remote control bomb. Khan was unable to say who might have been behind the latest bombing, but similar attacks including Thursday's have been blamed on the remnants of the Taliban. Posted by: Fred 2006-01-08 |
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