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Kabul – A suicide bomber attacked an anti-corruption demonstration in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, killing 16 people and wounding up to 60, officials said.
The explosion in the eastern city of Khost wounded a local member of parliament, Hamayun Hamayoon, according to Mubarez Mohammed Zadran, the provincial governor’s spokesperson.
The acting director of the provincial public health department, Hedayat Hamidi, said local hospitals have received 60 wounded, “among them civilians and members of the security forces.”
Khost is a volatile province along the border with Pakistan where the Taliban have an entrenched, long-term presence. In recent months, hundreds of thousands of people have arrived in the province fleeing a Pakistani army offensive against Taliban strongholds across the border. – AP
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