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| Suicide Blast Kills Three Afghan Civilians |
| 2013-09-15 |
[An Nahar] A Taliban jacket wallah killed three civilians in southern Afghanistan on Saturday when he detonated explosives in a failed attemptCurses! Foiled again! to target foreign forces fighting the Islamist hard boys, officials said. The attacker prematurely triggered a bomb packed inside his vehicle before he got close to an international military convoy on patrol in the Daman district of Kandahar province. "A suicide bomber driving a Toyota sedan detonated his vehicle in Daman on the road from Kandahar city to Spin Boldak (on the border with Pakistain)," Javed Faisal, the Kandahar governor's front man, told AFP. "The target of the suicide bomber was foreign forces, but it went kaboom!prematurely. Three non-combatants were killed -- two children and a woman. Seven men were maimed." Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid grabbed credit for the attack, which occurred three or four kilometers (two or three miles) from Kandahar airport, a major base for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Mujahid claimed 15 U.S. soldiers were killed, but the gunnies routinely exaggerate corpse counts. |
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