At least 23 killed in Kabul attack targeting vice president

Édité par Pavel Jacomino
2018-07-23 16:41:47

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Attack in Afghanistan kills at at least 23.  Photo: Reuters

Kabul, July 23 (RHC)-- In Afghanistan, at least 23 people were killed and more than 100 others were wounded Sunday after a suicide bomber struck near Kabul’s main airport.  The attack ripped through a crowd of supporters of Afghan Vice President Rashid Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek politician who had just returned to the Afghan capital after more than a year of self-imposed exile.  Dostum was unharmed in the explosion. 

Dostum left Afghanistan last year, after the country’s attorney general ordered the arrest of his bodyguards for allegedly torturing and sexually assaulting a rival politician.  Dostum was also involved in a massacre in 2001 that killed up to 2,000 Taliban prisoners of war. 

Elsewhere in Afghanistan Sunday, gunmen stormed a mosque in eastern Nangarhar province, opening fire and killing four worshipers during evening prayers. 



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