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Day of violence in Afghanistan claims 51 lives
 Six members of an Afghan family and a US soldier were among at least 51 people killed in a surge of attacks across Afghanistan where troops are battling a Taliban insurgency, authorities said on Tuesday.A suicide bomber destroyed a civilian vehicle about five kilometres from the country's largest US military base in the small town of Bagram, the Interior Ministry said. Six people from the same family were killed, including two children, it said in a statement. Another child was wounded, it said. "Two men, two women and two children are killed," Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP. "This is an act of insurgents," he said. A US soldier was killed and two wounded in a Taliban attack in the eastern province of Paktya, which borders Pakistan, the US military said. Paktya province spokesman, Rohullah Samoon, said an Afghan interpreter was killed in the same incident. A roadside bomb had hit a military vehicle, he said. Another roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying private Afghan guards in the same province and killed eight of the men, he said. Posted by: Fred 2009-06-03 |
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