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Afghanistan
15 Afghan army cadets killed in Kabul suicide attack
2017-10-22
[DAWN] A jacket wallah killed 15 Afghan army trainees as they were leaving their base in Kabul on Saturday, the defence ministry said, in the latest deadly attack in the capital.

"This afternoon when a minibus carrying army cadets was coming out of the military academy, a suicide bomber on foot targeted them, martyring 15 and wounding four," defence ministry front man Dawlat Waziri told AFP.

Kabul Crime Branch chief General Mohammad Salim Almas said police have launched an investigation into the attack which happened in the west of the city.

"The minibus was carrying army trainees to their homes from Marshal Fahim military academy," Almas told AFP.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

It was the second suicide kaboom in the Afghan capital in 24 hours and the seventh major assault in Afghanistan since Tuesday, taking the total corpse count to more than 200, with hundreds more maimed.

The spate of deadly attacks underscores deteriorating security across the war-torn country as the resurgent Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
step up their attacks on police and military bases and Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
continue to target Shia mosques.

It was the fifth time since Tuesday that turbans have launched a major attack against Afghanistan's beleaguered security forces already badly demoralised by high casualties and desertions.
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