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Two Civilians Killed, Eight Injured in Nangarhar's Twin Blasts
[Tolo News] Two non-combatants were killed and eight others were maimed in twin blasts in eastern NangarharThe 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 early Sunday, local officials said. The first blast took place in Achin district of the province, when a civilian vehicle following a newly married couple struck a roadside kaboom, killing one and injuring six others, said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a front man for the provincial governor. "The second blast took place few minutes after, when people were trying to carrying the victims to the hospital, killing one and injuring two others," he said. The married couple was not hurt in the blast. No group including the Taliban grabbed credit for the attack. Insurgents use roadside kabooms to target Afghan and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... forces, but most of the victims are civilians. There have been a number of high-profile Taliban attacks in the capital since the start of 2014, after the country saw one of the bloodiest fighting seasons of the 13-year war last year. The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... has attributed over 70 percent of all civilian casualties in Afghanistan to Taliban attacks. Early on Sunday, three Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel and a woman were killed in a suicide kaboom in 3rdstreet of Kart-e-Naw area of Kabul early on Sunday, local officials said. Twenty-two other including civilian were maimed in the attack. The incident took place about 07:00 AM, when a jacket wallah walking in the area detonated his explosive near an ANA vehicle, said Mohammad Zahir Zahir, the Kabul Police Chief. He said that most of the victims were the ANA personnel and were taken to a nearby hospital in the city. Posted by: Fred 2014-01-27 |
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