Monday, February 21, 2011

A bomb killed at least 28 dead in Afghanistan

At least twenty-eight civilians were killed Monday, February 21 in a suicide bombing outside the offices of administration of the province of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan where the Taliban insurgency is very active for two years. "The attack was perpetrated before the district headquarters, where people were lined up." All the victims are civilians.

They came to the district headquarters for various applications, "said Mohammad Ayob Haqyar, the district governor of Imam Sahib, where the attack took place. The province of Kunduz is seen as particularly unstable: February 10 A district governor was killed, along with two others by a suicide bomber who blew himself up in his office in Kunduz.

Insurgents have stepped up deadly attacks since late January, killing at least one hundred dead. Saturday, thirty-eight people were killed by seven suicide bombers who stormed a bank in Jalalabad, the largest city in the east, and shot employees and customers, including many police officers from their pay, before to confront the police for several hours.

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