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| 13 killed in Afghanistan's separate bombings |
| 2015-03-11 |
| [NEWS.XINHUANET] At least 13 people were killed while 47 others maimed in three separate kabooms in Afghanistan on Tuesday evening, official sources said. In one attack, seven civilians and one attacker were killed after a suicide boom-mobileing targeted a police vehicle in Lashkar Gah, historic provincial capital of southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province. "The blast occurred in Bolan locality, a suburban in Lashkar Gah. The attack caused seven civilians and the attacker killed and damaged several vehicles," provincial government front man Omar Zwak told Xinhua. Four police and 23 civilians were maimed in attack that occurred at around 6:00 p.m. local time, the official added. The second kaboom came 15 minutes later in Pul-e-Khumri, the historic provincial capital of northern Baghlan province after a roadside kaboom exploded when a police vehicle was passing the road, leaving one civilian woman dead on the scene. "About 13 pedestrians and two coppers aboard the vehicle were also maimed,"a provincial medical source Dr. Haleem Ghafari told Xinhua. In southern Uruzgan province, a police official, two children and a civilian were killed and five passers-by were maimed when a bomb targeted a car in historic provincial capital of Tirin Kot at around 06:30 p.m., according to a provincial security official. |
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