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| Suicide Attack in S. Afghanistan: District Police Chief Killed |
| 2010-08-20 |
| [Tolo News] In a suicide kaboom in the south-western Kandahar province Wednesday night, the police chief of the province's Daman district and three of his bodyguards were killed A suicide kaboomer blew himself up on Wednesday night when the vehicles of Ghulam Rasool, the police chief of Daman district were passing by, a police officer told TOLOnews reporter on condition of anonymity. Four coppers, including the police chief of Daman district was killed in the incident and three others were maimed, he added. A front man for the governor of Kandahar, Zalmai Ayubi, confirmed the suicide kaboom, but gave no details about casualties in the incident. Taliban bad boys have escalated their attacks in the country to target government authorities and Afghan and foreign forces, and violence has spread to the northern provinces as well. In the latest such incident, unknown gunnies attacked the house of the Border and Tribal Affairs Chief of the south-western Zabul province, Ata jan Kajarwal, and killed him along with his wife. According to local authorities, the incident had happened on Tuesday night in the province's Shahjoy district. |
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