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Two Injured in Helmand Blast
[TOLONEWS] Local officials of southern Helmand...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province on Sunday said that two civilians were maimed in Lashkargah, the capital of the province, when an kaboom occurred near the provincial traffic department. The incident took place around 11:00am, when a bomb placed in a cycle of violence went-off outside of the traffic office, said Omar Zwak, Spokesman of the Governor. The victims have been taken to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment. No one has yet grabbed credit for the blast. It comes a day after local officials of eastern 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.. police said two coppers and two non-combatants were killed by a suicide boom-mobileer who targeted the provincial police headquarters in Jalalabad city on Saturday morning. Five other coppers and three civilians were also injured in the attack. The incident took place about 08:00am local time, when the bomber detonated his explosives at the first gate of the police headquarters, according to Fazl Ahmad Shirzad, the Provincial Police Chief. The two incidents comes as the local officials across the country have committed to providing heightened security during Eid Days. Posted by: Fred 2013-10-14 |
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