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| Blast kills 25 civilians in western Afghanistan |
| 2010-07-29 |
| [Dawn] At least 25 Afghan passengers were killed and over a dozen wounded when their bus was hit by a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan on Wednesday, the provincial governor said. "Afghanistan once again saw a day of bloodshed of innocent civilian lives," Ghulam Dastgir Azaad, the governor of Nimroz where the incident occurred, told Rooters. The bus was on its way from Delaram district, about 700 kms from the capital, Kabul, when the bomb exploded. Nearly 20 people were maimed in the blast, some of them in serious condition, Azaad said. The incident coincided with the publication on Monday by the whistleblower group WikiLeaks of tens of thousands of classified US documents which cast a new light on civilians caught up in what it called "the true nature of this war". But it had nothing to do with the documents leak. Roadside bombs or Improvised Explosive Device, (IEDs) are by far the most lethal weapon the Taliban bad turbans have been heavily using against thousands of foreign troops and Afghan government. None of whom appear to have been on the bus... IEDs are the cause of most deaths of Afghan and international forces as well as civilians. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The US must stop blowing up our busses of innocent civilians with their Hellfire missiles. |
| Posted by: H. Karzai 2010-07-29 07:42 |