Friday, 10 April 2015

Civilians killed in separate bombings in Afghanistan


Bomb attacks in Afghanistan have killed 16 people in two separate attacks in the country's eastern provinces, officials say.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on Friday on a convoy carrying US troops near a military base not far from Jalalabad airport. The explosion killed four Afghan civilians.
In a separate incident also on Friday, 12 people were killed in Ghazni province when the minivan they were travelling on was hit by a roadside bomb.
No US soldiers were hurt in the bombing near Jalalabad, security officials told the Associated Press news agency.
The attack happened outside the gates of the base, as a convoy was returning from a patrol, according to an official at the base who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to media.
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