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Afghanistan
Blast Wounds Five Civilians in E Afghanistan
2011-04-26
[Tolo News] At least five Afghan civilians were maimed in a roadside kaboom blast in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, local officials said.

The incident happened at 09:00 am local time in Chaperhar district of Nangarhar
...on the main road from Lovely Peshawar. The capital is Jalalabad. The population of 1,334,000 consists mostly of Pashtuns with a few Arabs and Pashais...
 province when a roadside kaboom struck a civilian car, Ahmad Zia Abdulazai, a front man for governor of Nangarhar told TOLOnews.

The maimed were taken to a nearby hospital in the province, he added.

No group including the Taliban has grabbed credit for the incident.
Once again the Taliban are silent on the subject, having realized entirely too late that it really was not A Brilliant Idea after all.
Insurgents used Improvised Explosive Devices to target Afghan and foreign forces in the province.

Nangarhar province is bordered by Pakistain and forces of Evil are active in most villages of the province.

Momand Dara, Lal Poor, Goshta and Acheen districts are the insecure districts in the province where cut-throats often carry out attacks on Afghan police check posts.
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