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| Afghanistan |
| IOM office comes under bomb attack |
| 2003-02-21 |
| The International Organization for Migration (IOM) offices in Kunduz came under bomb attack earlier in the week. "On Tuesday night there were two explosions, one inside and the other just outside the IOM compound," Jarrett Blanc, an IOM programme manager Kabul said. "Nobody was hurt. Only seventeen windows of the compound building were blown out," Blanc explained, adding, however, the IOM had not delayed or suspended its operations as a result of the incident. Nothing serious. Only 17 windows... "Due to heavy snow at the time, local IOM staff who work outside in the compound were sheltered in a shed and no-one was injured or killed," David Singh, a media relations officer for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), told IRIN. Guess the brutal Afghan winter has its uses... According to security sources there was no fragmentation from the device, ruling out the possibility of it being a grenade. "Evidence so far suggests that it was an improvised explosive device," Singh said. They teach 'em how to make those at Muzafarrabad Junior College, in Pak Kashmir. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |