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Twin blasts in Afghan capital kill at least 29

May 01, 2018 00:00:00


Wounded journalists lying among their dead colleagues after a series of blasts in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday — Reuters

Twin blasts in the Afghan capital Kabul killed at least 29 people on Monday, including nine journalists who had arrived to report on the first explosion and were apparently targeted by a suicide bomber, officials said, reports Reuters.

The attacks, a week after 60 people were killed as they waited at a voter registration centre in the city, underlined mounting insecurity despite repeated government pledges to tighten defences.

Hours after the attack in Kabul, a suicide bomber in a vehicle attacked a foreign military convoy in the southern province of Kandahar, killing 11 children studying in a nearby religious school, police said."These attacks caused untold human suffering to Afghan families," said Tadamichi Yamamoto, the top UN official in Afghanistan.

"I am furthermore outraged by the attack which appears to have deliberately targeted journalists," he said in a statement.

The attacks in rapid succession were a grim reminder of the strength of both the Taliban and Islamic State's emerging Afghanistan branch to wreak violence.


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