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| Afghan suicide blasts claim 7 lives |
| 2008-01-31 |
| Suicide bombers killed seven people, including a leading provincial official, in two attacks in and near mosques in Afghanistan on Thursday. Many more were also injured in the bombings in a restive southern provincial seat and the capital of Kabul. Police said a suicide bomber detonated an explosives vest he was wearing in a mosque in the Helmand province capital of Lashkar Gar, killing the province's deputy governor, Pir Mohammad, who was praying at the time. Because islam has such reverence for mosques. Much like Ramadan. Five other people were killed and 21 were injured in the strike. The bomber was standing near to the deputy governor when the blast occurred. |
| Posted by:ed |