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Bomb kills 12 civilians in east Afghanistan: Govt

A Taliban-style roadside bomb tore through a car in eastern Afghanistan's Paktika province on Sunday, killing 12 civilians and wounding five others, the provincial administration said.

Updated on: Mar 7, 2011, 16:58:05 IST
AFP | By , Kabul
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A Taliban-style roadside bomb tore through a car in eastern Afghanistan's Paktika province on Sunday, killing 12 civilians and wounding five others, the provincial administration said.

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The dead included five children, two women and five men. They were on their way from neighboring Pakistan, the Paktika provincial administration said in a statement.

Mohibullah Samim the provincial governor blamed the bombing on "enemies of peace who once again revealed their tyrant face to the public," the statement added.

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