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2 US troops, 11 civilians killed in fresh Afghan violence
Two US troops and at least 11 civilians died in violence across southern Afghanistan on Friday, including one attack in which a suicide bomber wearing a burqa blew himself up in a bazaar. Violence has spiked recently in Afghanistan's volatile south as Taliban insurgents step up attacks ahead of a planned major operation by NATO forces to secure the main city of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban. General Stanley McChrystal, the US and NATO commander in Afghanistan, said in Brussels on Friday that insurgents have killed 59 Afghans during the past seven days, 54 of them in Kandahar. He told NATO ministers that insurgents also injured 116 people, including 94 in Kandahar. In Kandahar province, nine civilians, including four women and three children, were killed and eight other people were injured when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Maiwand district, said Zalmai Ayoubi, a spokesman for the provincial governor. Posted by: Fred 2010-06-12 |
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