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| Double suicide attack kills 12 in Afghanistan |
| 2012-09-02 |
| KABUL: Two suicide attackers, one driving a fuel tanker, blew themselves up near a US base in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least 12 people, officials said. The attack occurred around dawn in the town of Sayed Abad in Wardak province, about 70 kilometers (40 miles) from Kabul. The US-led NATO coalition said that no American or coalition troops were killed in the blasts. It confirmed that a number of troops were wounded, but did not say how many, in accordance with coalition policy. Shahidullah Shadid, a spokesman for the Wardak provincial governor, said one suicide bomber detonated a vest rigged with explosives outside a compound housing the district governor's office as well as local police and Afghan army headquarters. A second bomber driving a fuel tanker detonated his bomb on a road separating the compound from the base. Shadid said the dead included eight civilians and four Afghan police. |
| Posted by:Steve White |