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| Blast kills four civilians in Afghanistan |
| 2009-08-26 |
| [Dawn] A roadside bomb tore through a car carrying civilians in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, killing four passengers and wounding five others, the government announced Tuesday. The incident in the province of Paktia took place on Monday, the interior ministry said, blaming the attack on Taliban-led militants who are waging a deadly insurgency against the US-backed Afghan government. 'The mine was planted by the enemies of the country,' it said. Roadside bombs, or home-made explosives built of old ordnance, is the weapon of choice for the Taliban and other insurgents in their campaign against the government and around 100,000 Western military forces based in Afghanistan. The defence ministry said troops captured a militant bomb-making 'expert' in Logar province just south of capital Kabul and confiscated about 300 improvised bombs in a raid on Monday. The Taliban-led insurgency gripping Afghanistan is now at its deadliest since the 2001 US-led invasion ousted their extremist regime. The war-torn country is on edge, awaiting the results of its second ever presidential poll. |
| Posted by:Fred |