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| Afghanistan |
| Afghan kaboom kills 15 |
| 2007-08-19 |
| A suicide car bomber attacked a US convoy in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing 15 people, including 11 civilians, and injuring 26 others, police said. Police said the attack took place in a crowded area west of Kandahar. "Fifteen people, four Afghan security guards and 11 civilians were killed and another 26, including 19 civilians and seven guards, were injured in the suicide blast today," police chief Sayed Aqa Saqib told AFP. The logistics convoy, which was guarded by a US private security firm, was heading to troubled Zehri district in Helmand province when the attack took place. The blast destroyed two vehicles belonging to the guards and a civilian minibus, police said at the scene. "The bomb was so strong that it ripped through the civilian minibus and several other vehicles," police officer Jan Mohammad said. Body parts and pieces of metal from the suicide bomber's car were scattered 100 metres from the site of the blast, which partially destroyed the outer wall of a nearby mosque. Bloodied turbans, sandals and shoes littered the pavement. One of the convoy's security guards collected body parts and bits of flesh from the road. Ten passengers aboard the minibus were killed, an AFP reporter at the scene said. Only a woman and her baby daughter emerged from the bus unscathed. She leaned against the wall of the mosque, wailing uncontrollably. On Friday, another suicide attacker blew himself up outside the house of a district governor in Kandahar, killing the official and three of his children, and injuring three others. |
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