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| Four Afghan civilians killed in two suicide kabooms |
| 2010-11-21 |
| [Emirates 24/7] Four Afghan non-combatants were killed on Saturday in two separate suicide kabooms in the east of the country, the interior ministry said. In the first a man, woman and child were killed and 25 others injured when a jacket wallah on a bicycle blew himself up near the public health directorate in Mihtarlam, the capital of Laghman province. The acting provincial governor said earlier that the blast was caused by a bicycle bomb. Another suicide kaboom a few minutes later in the Serahi Alishang area of the city killed one man and injured eight, the interior ministry said. The Taliban grabbed credit for both attacks and said that six coppers and five intelligence agents were killed while two police vehicles were destroyed, but the group regularly inflates casualty figures. Homemade bombs or improvised bombs have become the weapon of choice for Taliban Islamic fascisti and are responsible for most fatalities and casualties among Afghan and NATO troops as well as civilians. Last Saturday, explosives attached to a cycle of violence killed 10 civilians in a market in a remote town in northern Kunduz province. The target of the attack -- a pro-government militia leader -- was also killed. This week a group of 29 domestic and international aid agencies urged NATO leaders meeting in Lisbon to do more to protect civilians, as they discuss the timetable for the handover of security powers to Afghan forces. This year is the deadliest year for civilian casualties in Afghanistan, according to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society. The number of ordinary Afghans killed in the conflict rose by a third in the first six months of 2010 to 1,271, with most deaths caused by turban attacks, the world body said in its six-monthly update in August. |
| Posted by:Fred |