Suicide Bombers Strike... In AFGHANISTAN

Suicide bomb kills 10 Afghans as US envoy visits

By Mirwais Afghan
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people in an attack in an Afghan provincial capital on Thursday during a visit by the U.S. ambassador, officials said. The envoy was unhurt.

Another 50 people were wounded, 15 critically, in the incident in Tarin Kot, capital of the central province of Uruzgan, said Haji Abdul Aziz, the deputy provincial governor.

He said the attack took place in a bazaar about 1.5 km (one mile) from the Governor's House, which U.S. ambassador Ronald E. Neumann was visiting.

"I can confirm that it was a suicide attack, but the person had used explosives attached to his body, not a car bomb as we thought earlier," he told Reuters.

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