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Wednesday, 19 September 2012


WOMAN CAR BOMBER KILLS 12 IN AFGHANISTAN

Highway bombing reportedly carried out to avenge anti-Islam film

Kabul,Afghanistan :  A woman suicide car bomber attacked a van in Kabul on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including eight South Africans, in an assault insurgents said was in revenge for the anti-Islam film made in America.

The bombing on a highway leading to Kabul international airport was the second suicide attack in the heavily fortified city in 10 days, reviving questions about stability as Nato accelerates a troop withdrawal and hands over to Afghan forces by the end of 2014.

An AFP photographer saw atleast six bodies lying among the wreckage of a gutted minivan, and another vehicle destroyed by flames still burning in the middle of the highway, with debris flung all around.

“At around 6:45am (02:15 GMT) a suicide bomber using a sedan blew herself up along the airport road in District 15. As a result, nine workers of a foreign company and three Afghan civilians are dead, and two police are wounded,” police said in a statement.

19/09/2012  :  The News.




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