[APA.AZ] Twin explosions in the central Afghan province of Bamiyan killed at least 14 people and wounded 45 more, provincial officials said on Tuesday, as the international community pledged assistance for Afghanistan at a conference in Switzerland, APA reports citing Reuters.
The two bombs, hidden at the side of a road in a main bazaar in Bamiyan city, killed 12 civilians and two traffic policemen, said Zabardast Safai, the police chief of the province.
The other 45 people injured were mostly from a nearby restaurant and shops, Safai added.
Bamiyan
...a place in Afghanistan that used to have some historically interesting statues of the Buddha carved into a mountainside. Then the holy men showed up and now all they have is some big holes...
has been seen as the country's safest province due to its remote location in the central mountains. The dominant local tribe, the Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
, opposed the Taliban
 ...Arabic for students ...
, mostly ethnic Pashtuns who massacred thousands of Hazara during their rule.
The Taliban, which has been waging an insurgency against the foreign-backed Kabul administration since being toppled in late 2001, denied involvement in the bombings.
Hazaras are mostly Shi'ite Moslems. Minority Shi'ites have been repeatedly attacked by Sunni turbans, especially Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
fighters in Afghanistan.
Nearly 6,000 Afghan non-combatants were killed or maimed in the first nine months of this year as heavy fighting between government forces and Taliban holy warriors rages on despite efforts to find peace, according to the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
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