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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban suicide bomb kills two Afghan UN doctors |
| 2008-09-14 |
| A suicide car bomb claimed by Taliban The powerful suicide car bomb struck a UN marked vehicle travelling towards the town of Spin Boldak on the border with Pakistan, police said. "The explosion killed two UN workers," Kandahar province police chief Mutiullah Khan Qatah told AFP, adding they were doctors. He said around 15 people were wounded. One of the doctors was from the health ministry and the other from the UN's World Health Organisation, the Afghan health ministry spokesman, Abdullah Fahim, told AFP. The health ministry doctor was apparently contracted to the United Nations, which is working on a polio vaccination project in the area. Their driver and 17 other people were wounded, Fahim said. The Taliban movement, an extremist Islamic militia waging an insurgency against the Western-backed government, said the suicide attack was carried out by one its members. The militia has carried out scores of such blasts and the latest attack came as the governor of the province of Logar was buried near his home in Paghman, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) west of the capital. Mohammad Jan Abdullah Wardak was killed Saturday with two bodyguards and a driver in a roadside bombing also claimed by the Taliban. Taliban rebels also attacked a district police headquarters in the central province of Ghazni on Saturday, provincial government spokesman Ismail Jahangir told. "Four policemen were killed and they have taken two policemen with them," he said. The police chief of Zana Khan district may be among the dead, he said. The Taliban confirmed its involvement. And in another incident blamed on the Taliban, an Afghan interpreter working for the US military was shot dead as he stepped out of his home Sunday, police said. |
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