...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..announced on Tuesday that the corpse count from last week’s truck bombing in the capital Kabul has reached to over 150.
He said during a peace conference in the city that more than 300 people were maimed in the attack.
The blast occurred when a sewage truck packed with what Ghani called "military-grade" explosives detonated at the entrance to a fortified area of that city that includes foreign embassies and government buildings.
The new corpse count makes it the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital since the ouster of the Taliban
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"We were not the only targets, the entire diplomatic community was the target of this attack," Ghani told foreign diplomats gathered for the conference.
Previous official estimates had put the corpse count at about 90, with more than 460 maimed.
All of those killed were Afghans, and Ghani paid specific homage to 13 coppers who stopped the truck as it tried to enter the fortified district and were killed in the blast.