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Ten Killed, Four Injured in Suicide Attack near Kabul, Afghanistan
The attack comes moments after the Afghan Taliban’s successor was named.
Aakruti Jagmohan
World
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A similar in Kandahar blast killed five on 24 May 2016. File Photo of wounded Afghans in a hospital after a roadside bomb exploded in Shah Wali Kot district. (Photo: AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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Ten people were killed and four wounded, after a suicide bomber targeted a bus carrying staff from an appeal court on the way back to Wardak province, near the Afghan capital of Kabul.
No immediate claim was made for the incident that took place at 9 am local time in Bagh-e-Daoud area of Paghman district. The attack comes moments after the Taliban confirmed the successor of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor as Haibatullah Akhunzada.
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