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8 killed, 40 wounded as Afghan passenger bus hit by roadside bomb: officials
[DAWN] A roadside kaboom hit a Kabul-bound passenger bus in western Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding around 40, mostly women and kiddies, officials said.

"It was a bomb planted by the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
to hit security forces but unfortunately it got a passenger bus," Farah provincial police front man Muhibullah Muhib claimed. There was no immediate confirmation that the Taliban was responsible for the blast, but Afghanistan's largest Death Eater group is very active in the province.

The kaboom happened as the bus travelled through Bala Baluk district of Farah at 4:30am, provincial governor front man Naser Mehri told AFP.

Photos posted on social media purportedly of the bus showed the vehicle's blackened shell and dozens of Afghan men standing at the scene.


Posted by: Fred 2018-08-01
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