Kabul: Bomb kills 15 wedding guests


October 19, 2012 - Updated 1551 PKT
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KABUL: A huge roadside bomb ripped through a minibus carrying guests to a wedding party in Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 18 others, police said.

Most of the victims were women and children in the attack that took place in the northern province of Balkh, in the district of Dawlat Abad around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the provincial capital Mazar-i-Sharif.

"All the victims were civilians and mostly they were women and children," the police spokesman for Balkh, Shir Jan Durrani, told AFP. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but similar attacks are usually blamed on Taliban insurgents fighting to overthrow the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai.

Taliban attacks tend to be focused in the south and east of the country, with the north escaping the worst of an insurgency that has raged for 11 years since the militants were ousted from power in a US-led invasion. But parts of Balkh province, including the area around Dawlat Abad, have seen an increase in Taliban activity in recent years despite the presence of more than 100,000 NATO troops in the country.
 

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