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Afghanistan
7 Killed, 10 Wounded in Bomb Blasts in Afghanistan
2010-08-18
[Tolo News] In kabooms in southern and western Afghanistan, 7 non-combatants were killed and 10 others were maimed, including women and children

In a motorcycle kaboom in the southern Ghazni province Tuesday morning, 2 non-combatants were killed and 8 others were maimed.

The explosives that were attached to a cycle of violence, exploded at 7:30 am on Tuesday in Ghazni city when a convoy of police forces was passing by, head of the Criminal Investigation Department of Ghazni Police told TOLOnews.

A cop is also wounded in the incident, he added.

In another report, 5 non-combatants were killed and 2 others were maimed in a road-side mine blast in Shindand district of the western Herat province on Monday evening.

The incident occurred on Monday evening when a passenger car was hit by a road-side mine blast in which 3 women, one child and one man were killed and 2 women were maimed, Lal Muhammad Omarzai, the sub-governor of Shindand, told TOLOnews.

The victims of the incident were all from one family who were on their way home from a party, he added.

Road-side mines are planted by bad boy'>bad boys to target Afghan and foreign forces, which mainly claim civilian lives.
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