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| Six children killed in Afghan suicide attack |
| 2010-08-03 |
| A suicide car bomber killed six children in an attack targeting an Afghan government official on Monday in the volatile south. A senior adviser to President Hamid Karzai was hit by a separate bomb attack in eastern Nangarhar province, leaving him and his travelling companion badly wounded, and injuring five civilians. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the east. The Interior Ministry originally said five children were killed in the blast, and Dand district governor Ahmadullah Nazick said that a sixth had died by the early afternoon. The car bomb was followed by a roadside bomb attack 10 metres away, after the police arrived at the scene, and wounded two policemen, said the district criminal investigations chief Hussain. Karzai, who has said his government will aim to take full responsibility for security in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, condemned the attack, describing it as the "work of imbeciles". In eastern Nangarhar, adviser on tribal affairs to the president, Waheedullah Sabawoon, was on a personal visit in Jalalabad, capital of the province, when a bomb placed in a rickshaw exploded and hit his vehicle. Elsewhere, insurgents ambushed a key supply route for coalition forces in the central province of Ghazni, killing two Afghan guards escorting a truck along a highway heading for Kandahar, said Ghazni government spokesman Ismail Jahangir. In London, the defence ministry identified two NATO soldiers killed in Helmand on Sunday as British nationals. One of the soldiers was killed by small arms fire in Lashkar Gah district while the second died by a roadside bomb in the Sangin region. |
| Posted by:Fred |