Follow up to yesterday’s report, which gave preliminary death counts between 21 and 30, and 60-90 injured.
[ToloNews] The corpse count from Friday’s truck bombing in Pul-e-Alam City, the center of Pashtun-infested Logar province rose to 26 as rescue workers worked throughout the night to recover those trapped under the rubble.A 40 days old toddler was also among those maimed in the blast.
Most of those killed and maimed in the blast were students and civilians.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, bullets
whapped!around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet......
Acting Minister of Interior Hayatullah Hayat said that another 25 non-combatants were killed and 56 more maimed in separate Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...attacks in other parts of the country in less than 24 hours before the start of withdrawal of foreign forces from the country.
"Overall, the Taliban is a group that has foreign support. Any attack and killing that are occurring here, without any doubt, the Taliban and their backers in the region are behind them," said Hayat.