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Taliban claims responsible for Kabul's suicide explosion
www.chinaview.cn 2005-09-29 00:15:22

   KABUL, Sept. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Taliban claimed to be responsible for the suicide attack in Afghan capital Kabul in which nine Afghan soldiers were killed and 28 injured on Wednesday.

   A suicide attacker detonated a bomb Wednesday in Kabul, killed nine and injured 28. At the same time, Taliban's spokesperson Abdul Latif Hakimi announced it is a devotee of Taliban that carry out the suicide attack.

   "The attacker carried the bomb in a motorcycle and detonated when he drove to the parking area of a military training center. Nine Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed, and 28 others injured, among whom about three or four are in bad condition," spokesperson of Afghan Defense Ministry Mohammad Zahir Azimi told Xinhua.

   "The explosion happened beside four buses in a parking area where many people were waiting to take the bus back home, and the explosion caused many casualties," Massoud, a witness told Xinhua.

   On the same day, two policemen and a civilian died and four civilians were injured in a mine explosion planted by Taliban militants in Afghan eastern province of Kunar.

   A Bangladeshi engineer working for UN Project Services was badly injured by a roadside bomb on Tuesday when his car was traveling in another Afghan eastern province of Nangarhar.

   Taliban, failed to derail the Afghan parliamentary election, continued their attacks against Afghan and foreign troops in which many civilians became the victims. Enditem

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