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About 2 dozen killed in Afghan violence
GHAZNI: Around two-dozen people, including several civilians, were killed in the latest spate of Taliban-linked violence across Afghanistan, authorities said on Sunday.

Three civilians, one a woman, were killed when a bomb hit their vehicle in the eastern province of Khost, a troubled region coincidentally near the Pakistani border, provincial police spokesman Mohammad Yaqob said. Two other civilians were wounded by the same bomb, which he said was detonated remotely like many others used in Taliban attacks on security forces.

The Taliban on Saturday shot dead seven men, two of them truck drivers for a Western security firm, who had been kidnapped in the past week, police and a rebel spokesman said. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahed, said the men — three policemen, two soldiers and the drivers — were killed after attempting to escape “from our jail”. Ghazni province police chief Khan Mohammad Mujahed told AFP that three bodies had been recovered.
Posted by: Fred 2007-12-24
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