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| Deadly militant attack hits Afghanistan's Khost amid faltering 'peace' talks |
| 2020-10-28 |
| [PRESSTV] A car kaboom has killed at least seven people and maimed 33, including police forces and civilians, in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost Province, as a new UN report says the ongoing 'peace' talks have failed to slow the civilian casualty toll. The boom-mobileing targeted a police special forces compound in the city of Khost, near the border with Pakistain, on Tuesday morning. Gunmen then entered the building and engaged security officers in shootouts, according to local authorities. "The security forces destroyed another boom-mobile before it reached its target," Provincial Police Chief Daoud Tarakhel said, adding that "several security forces have been maimed in the attack." He said that the attackers had been confined to one building and that other parts of the police special unit compound had been cleared of the assailants. No group has yet grabbed credit for the attack. Afghan Interior Ministry front man Tariq Arian announced that at least four assailants had been killed during the festivities and that efforts were underway to neutralize the remaining bad boys. "This morning, forces of Evil blew up a vehicle loaded with explosives near a special police unit in the area of the former governor office of Khost Province. Four bad boyz were potted and efforts are underway to eliminate the other two terrorists," the Afghan Interior Ministry said in a statement. "In this incident, 16 soldiers and nine civilians were maimed, and two people were martyred," it said. Khost Civil Hospital’s chief physician Sakhi Sardar said that the medical center had received 32 maimed soldiers and civilians — including women and kiddies — as well as the bodies of three people. |
| Posted by:Fred |