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Afghan violence claims another 23 lives
 A suicide attack near a German diplomatic convoy in Afghanistan's capital Kabul left three Afghan civilians dead Sunday as 20 other people, most of them insurgents, were reported killed in other unrest. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing, the second in Kabul in three days, but similar ones have been claimed by Taliban-led militants waging an insurgency.A German Foreign Ministry spokesman in Berlin said a vehicle belonging to its embassy in Kabul had been targeted. "The sole occupant of the vehicle, an Afghan employee of the embassy, was [wounded]," the spokesman said. President Hamid Karzai's office said three civilians had been killed and six wounded in the blast, which he described as a "barbaric terrorist action." The attacker was on foot when he blew himself up in front of a boys' high school and about 200 meters from Parliament, police said. At least one of the dead was a municipal worker who had been cleaning the road, another worker named Waheedullah told AFP. "I was standing here at the corner when I heard a big explosion," he said. "I went to the main road and saw one of our friends lying on roadside, covered in blood, near his wheelbarrow. His belly was badly wounded and was open. I saw another civilian dead nearby and I saw two civilians wounded," he said. Posted by: Fred 2008-12-01 |
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