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| Afghanistan |
| Bomb Kills Four Afghan Children |
| 2011-11-19 |
[An Nahar] Four Afghan children were killed on Friday when a bomb went kaboom!as they played near their home in the warring country's troubled east, which borders Pakistain, officials said. The blast in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province is the latest reminder of the high corpse count suffered by civilians in the current war since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power. "Four children were killed and six others were slightly injured as a result of roadside kaboom kaboom," said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a front man for the governor of Nangarhar. "The incident took place around 9:30 am (05:00 GMT)." But the interior ministry said the kaboom was caused by a mortar apparently left over from Afghanistan's decades of war. Afghanistan faced years of conflict before 2001 and bombs dating from this period regularly cause deaths and injuries, often to curious children. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... most bombings are linked to an insurgency being waged by the turban Taliban. The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... said the number of civilians killed in the war during the first half of this year rose 15 percent to 1,462, with gunnies responsible for 80 percent of the deaths. There are around 140,000 international troops, mainly from the United States, in Afghanistan helping government forces combat a Taliban-led insurgency. |
| Posted by:Fred |