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| Roadside bomb kills 10 in Afghanistan |
| 2011-11-08 |
| A roadside bomb killed 10 people in northwest Afghanistan, the latest civilians slaughtered during the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha. The blast struck a police vehicle in Badghis province late on Monday, killing two officers plus eight civilians from the same family in another vehicle which was following it. Badghis provincial council chairman Faizullah Azimi, "A mine planted by the Taliban hit a police vehicle in Qadis district yesterday evening leaving two policemen and eight civilians dead. All the civilians were members of the same family." He said two policemen and a child were also injured. The toll was confirmed by a spokesman for the interior ministry, Siddiq Siddiqui, who said the dead included women and children. He called the attack "cowardly." |
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