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| Tribal elder among 4 killed in a suicide car bomb attack in Nangarhar | |
| 2018-07-31 | |
| [Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least four people including a local tribal elder were killed in a suicide car kaboom in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan. The provincial government media office in a statement said the incident took place at around 6:30pm local time in the vicinity of Rodat dsitrict. The statement further added that the attack in Kabul Camp area left the local tribal elder Haji Hayat and three of his family members dead. According to governor’s office, Haji Hayat’s son was also maimed in the suicide car kaboom. The incident took place as Haji Hayat Khan was on his way to Jalalabad city from Kot district, the statement said, adding that the jacket wallah used a mini truck packed with explosives to carry out the attack. Haji Hayat Khan was also a nominee for the upcoming parliamentary elections and three of his family members killed in the attack were serving as his security guards and driver, the provincial government added. The statement by the provincial government also added that Haji Hayat Khan’s son has sustained minor injuries in the attack.
The incident follows a series of attacks on targets in Nangarhar, the province on the border with Pakistan where Islamic State group first appeared in Afghanistan in late 2014. | |
| Posted by:Fred |