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Afghan suicide blast kills 13: officials
A suicide attack on a joint NATO-Afghan foot patrol on Monday killed at least 13 people, including three NATO troops and four Afghan police, ISAF and Afghan officials said.Six civilians were also killed and 37 were wounded in the attack near a market in the eastern city of Khost, the provincial governor's office said. "Today at around 8:30 am (0400 GMT) a suicide bomber on a motorcycle targeted a joint patrol in Khost city in a crowded area. "In this inhuman attack three police and 37 civilians were wounded, and six civilians and four police, including the commander of the quick reaction forces, were killed," the governor's office said in a statement. Hospital sources put the number of Afghan dead at 10 with more than 60 wounded. A spokesman for NATO's US-led International Security Assistance Force said he could confirm that three NATO service members had been killed, but that details of the incident were still unclear. The deaths take coalition casualties to at least 347 this year, according to an AFP tally. Posted by: tipper 2012-10-01 |
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