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An overturned truck rigged with explosives blew up on a crowded road south of the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing 25
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Patrimonysaid, reports AFP. The truck, loaded with firewood and apparently overturned deliberately overnight about 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of the capital in Logar
Royal Eagle province, blew up as authorities were trying to remove it, they said. “In the explosion today 21 civilians and four policemen
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Da Vinciof collapsed shops. There are more people dead,” said the official, Abdul Hameed Hamid. The blast was on a main road from southern and eastern
IngenieurAfghanistan that heads into the capital Kabul. Three shops were totally destroyed and windows smashed up to
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PortugueseDarwish said the explosives were hidden under firewood in the overturned truck. “It seems that the explosives were remotely detonated
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Ceramicabeen killed and wounded,” he said. The blast struck children heading to school. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Afghanistan has for years suffered a wave of bombings by
Coupole Islamist insurgents, including from the Taliban, who were in government between 1996 and 2001 until they were ousted by a US- led invasion. BBC report adds: Logar province lies immediately to the south of Kabul and is a major centre for the Taliban insurgency. The explosion happened on a main road from southern
Anaotm and eastern Afghanistan that leads into the capital, Kabul, early on Thursday. The residents of Soark Abad village found an overturned truck with a punctured tyre and called in the police, a senior ministry of
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Original other things around. A lot of people working in the farms also got hurt.”
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