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| Roadside bomb kills four civilians in eastern Afghanistan |
| 2012-03-04 |
| [Iran Press TV] Four civilian motorists have been killed by a roadside kaboom in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , Press TV reports. The civilians' car ran over a buried bomb at around 7:30 a.m. local time (0330 GMT) on Saturday in the Khogyani district of the province, which is located 120 kilometers (74 miles) east of the Afghan capital Kabul. The four victims, including a teenager, were all part of the same family. No group has yet grabbed credit for placing the bomb. Roadside bombs and improvised bombs (IEDs) are by far the most lethal weapon Talibs use against Afghan forces, foreign troops, and civilians. Homemade explosives accounted for half of the roughly 1,500 civilian deaths in the first six months of 2011, according to the United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... Insecurity continues to rise across Afghanistan despite the presence of 130,000 US-led forces in the war-torn country. The United Nations announced on February 4 that 2011 was the deadliest year on record for Afghan civilians. The corpse count rose eight percent compared to the year before and was roughly double the figure for 2007. Overall, 3,021 civilians died in violence related to the war and 4,507 were maimed in 2011. Of the deaths, the UN attributed 77 percent to bully boy attacks and 14 percent to US-led foreign troops and Afghan forces. Nine percent of the cases were classified as unknown. |
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