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| Death Toll Doubles in Attack on Afghanistan's Abdullah |
| 2014-06-08 |
| [An Nahar] The corpse count from two kabooms targeting Afghan presidential front-runner Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... doubled on Saturday, with at least 12 people confirmed dead in an attack that triggered strong international condemnation. Abdullah survived the liquidation attempt on Friday when the blasts, including a suicide kaboom, targeted his campaign motorcade in Kabul ahead of next week's hotly contested run-off election. It was the second attack on Abdullah during Afghanistan's fractious election season, which has seen an uptick in violence with Talibs threatening to disrupt the polls. "The casualty toll has increased to 12 people, while a further 40 people, including one woman, were maimed," Sayed Gul Agha Hashemi, head of Kabul police's criminal investigation branch, told AFP. Afghan officials on Friday said that six people were killed in the attack. Abdullah himself escaped unhurt but said he had lost three of his campaign workers. |
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