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Suicide Bomber Kills 2 in Ghazni
 [Quqnoos] A suicide bomber stuck a convoy of US forces Tuesday morning, killing two civilians in the southern Ghazni province. The suicide attacker rammed his car bomb into a convoy of the US forces in Qala-e Ashraf village, about 4 km east of Ghazni city, the provincial capital.The incident took place at around 8:30 am on Tuesday while the US troops were heading to a district outside the city, said a spokesman for the provincial administration, Sayed Esmaiel Jahangir. According to the spokesman, the US troops who were in their armored humvees were not harmed in the explosion. It is the first shocking suicide attack happens in Ghazni in 2009 so far, Quqnoos's Sayed Qadeer said. A Taliban spokesman claimed that 16 US soldiers have been killed and three vehicles were destroyed. Roadside Bomb Moreover in the nearby Kandahar province, a roadside bomb struck a police convoy that left three policemen dead and 4 others wounded. The incident occurred Monday evening in Dand district of the Kandahar province, the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban. Kandahar Police Chief, Gen Matiullah Qateh said the injured policemen were taken to a state-run hospital at the provincial centre. A purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said the Taliban elements planted the mine; according to him, all the people on board have been killed. Posted by: Fred 2009-06-24 |
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