AFGHANISTAN: Suicide Bomber Kills 7 in Afghanistan

By KHALID FAZLY and KIRK SEMPLE
The New York Times

KABUL, Afghanistan — A man wrapped in explosives approached a police car passing through a crowded marketplace in the southern province of Helmand on Monday and detonated himself, killing at least seven people and wounding at least 27, the local authorities said.

The attack, coming on the busiest shopping day of the week in the town of Musa Qala, seemed intended to inflict the highest number of casualties possible. Five of the dead were civilians and two were police officers, and all but five of the wounded were civilians, said Asadullah Sherzad, the police chief of Helmand Province.

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AFGHANISTAN: Suicide blast kills two in Afghan capital

by AFP

KABUL (AFP) — A suicide attack apparently targeted at a foreign forces vehicle on a road running past the parliament building in the Afghan capital Sunday killed two civilians, Kabul police said.

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PAKISTAN: Pakistan bomb attack ‘kills nine’

by BBC News

Nine people have been killed in a suicide attack in Pakistan’s north-western Bajaur tribal region, officials and witnesses have said.

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AFGHANISTAN: Suicide attack kills US soldier, ten Afghans: officials

by AFP

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AFP) — A suicide attack targeting a US-led coalition convoy in eastern Afghanistan Thursday killed an American soldier and ten Afghan civilians, wounding 55 others, officials said.

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SRI LANKA: Four killed in Tamil Tiger attack in Sri Lanka – website

BY BBC Monitoring

Text of report by Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence, Public Security, Law and Order website on 10 July

At least four civilians were killed and 26 others reported wounded when LTTE [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam] terrorists opened fire at a passenger bus plying from Monaragala towards Kataragama, at the 49th mile post along the Buttala-Kataragama main road, Friday (11 July), at around 10:15 a.m. [local time].

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