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Afghan suicide bomber kills 4 children - police
01 Apr 2007 13:22:57 GMT
Source: Reuters
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, April 1 (Reuters) - Four children were killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Afghan army convoy in the east of the country on Sunday, police said.

A suicide bomber rammed a car into an army convoy in Mehtarlam, the provincial capital of eastern Laghman province, and wounded four troops, they said. The children were in the vicinity of the attack.
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A woman from the ethnic Hazara minority stands in front of her cave home in Bamiyan, some 240 km (150 miles) northwest of Kabul, April 12, 2007. The Hazaras, an ethnic group living in central Afghanistan mountain region, are Shi'ite Muslims who have complained of discrimination by Kabul for centuries and are among the poorest people in the war-ravaged country.



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