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9 Afghans killed in attack on Indian consulate
[Ynet] Three suicide kaboomers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack Saturday on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistain, security officials said.Police fired on the hard boyz as they approached a checkpoint near the consulate in Jalalabad, prompting one of them to set off their explosives-laden car, said Masum Khan Hashimi, the deputy police chief of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province. The blast killed nine bystanders, and maimed another 24 people including a policeman. All three attackers also died.
Posted by: trailing wife 2013-08-04 |
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