Bomber Kills 28 In Afghanistan Attack
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber on a motorized rickshaw detonated explosives yesterday in a marketplace in southern Afghanistan, killing 28 people in one of the deadliest bombings since the fall of the Taliban. Children selling chewing gum and cigarettes were among the victims of the blast.
The attacker was apparently targeting a police commander when he detonated his bomb near a taxi stand around 6:30 p.m. in the town of Gereshk in Helmand province, the world’s largest poppy-growing region and site of the country’s worst violence this year.
Gereshk district chief Abdul Manaf Khan said 28 people were killed, including 13 police and 15 civilians.