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| Two held over Afghan attack |
| 2007-11-10 |
| MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Afghan police have detained two men on suspicion of involvement in a suicide bomb attack this week that killed more than 50 people in the north of the country, the provincial governor said on Friday. TuesdayÂ’s blast, in the relatively peaceful north, shook public confidence in the ability of the government and the 50,000 foreign troops in the country to provide security more than six years after the Taliban were ousted from power. Taliban denied responsibility for the attack in the northern town of Baghlan that killed six opposition parliamentarians and a large number of schoolchildren. Police arrested two men in Baghlan - one a mosque prayer leader, the other a resident of the industrial part of the town where the blast took place - provincial governor Mohammad Alam Ishaaqzai said. |
| Posted by:Fred |