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Blast kills 3 Afghans
[Bangla Daily Star] Three non-combatants were killed and three others including a woman and child maimed when their vehicle hit a roadside kaboom in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, police said.
The bomb was planted under a bridge in Alingar district of Laghman province before it destroyed a civilian van, provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang told AFP.
Roadside bombs are frequently planted by cut-throats but there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
According to the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
, the number of civilians killed in violence in Afghanistan rose by 15 per cent in the first six months of this year to 1,462, with cut-throats responsible for 80 percent of the killings.
Posted by: Fred 2011-11-23 |
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