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Suicide Bombers Raid Afghan Government Office

31st July, 2018 · admin 7 Comments

afghan_securityAyaz Gul
VOA News
July 31, 2018

ISLAMABAD — Afghan officials say insurgents attacked security forces and government buildings in the country’s eastern and western provinces killing and wounding scores of people.

In western Farah province, officials said a roadside bomb early Tuesday killed at least 11 passengers and wounding around 40 others.

A provincial government spokesman, Nasar Mehri, told VOA that women and children were among the victims. He claimed that Taliban insurgents had recently planted the bomb in the Bala Buluk district to target Afghan security forces.

There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the deadly blast.

Hours later, an unknown number of heavily armed suicide bombers assaulted a government building in eastern Afghanistan injuring at least 10 injured people.

Officials said the insurgents targeted the department for refugee affairs in Jalalabad, capital of the Nangarhar province bordering Pakistan.

Provincial government spokesman Attahullah Khogyani told VOA the attack began with a suicide bomber blowing himself up at the entrance and enabling the assailants to storm the building where a high-level meeting was underway.

Afghan security forces swiftly surrounded the compound and a gunfight ensued. Television footage showed fire burning from the building shortly after the siege started.

The Taliban insurgency has denied its involvement in the attack, strengthening suspicions Islamic State could be behind the violence. The terrorist group has claimed most of the attacks in Nangarhar in the past month, including the beheading of three school guards and a suicide blast that killed 19 people, mostly members of the tiny Afghan Sikh minority.

“The country’s franchise of Islamic State [known as IS-K] has managed to gain a foothold in the province when it had failed elsewhere, exploiting the disarray of government forces and the fragmentation of the local insurgency,” said the independent Bureau of Investigative Journalism in a report issued Monday.

Civilians continue to bear the brunt of the armed conflict and terrorist attacks in Afghanistan. The United Nations reported earlier this month that the violence has killed nearly 1,700 civilians, the highest number of fatalities in a six-month period in the last decade.

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Posted in Anti-Government Militants, Civilian Injuries and Deaths, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Taliban | Tags: Farah, Nangarhar |
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7 thoughts on “Suicide Bombers Raid Afghan Government Office”

  1. Nasrullah says:
    July 31, 2018 at 9:35 pm

    Where’s Baghlani now? Someone’s chew boy dancing at a party I’m sure. While our people are being attacked and our BRAVE soldiers and police rush into to fire, Baghlani sits in his house complaining, but refuses to fight for even his own family. Baghlani, you pork eater.

    Reply
  2. Baghlani says:
    August 2, 2018 at 4:15 am

    You are Englisman’s enslaved
    Burmese.
    .
    Your name is
    IS
    “PIGSON”- you are not
    from Afghanistan.
    .You semi-retarded foreign butler who is paid to engage and distort the facts
    that are being expressed
    in
    this forum
    by
    the real honorable
    people
    of
    Afghanistan.
    =========
    YOU
    FOREIGN
    SUGGI-DAYWAHNAGAN
    ARE NOT WELCOME
    IN
    AFGHANISTAN !

    Reply
  3. Baghlani says:
    August 2, 2018 at 4:49 am

    The coward
    invaders
    are constantly
    hiring and
    training these types of semi-retard charachters,
    in an order to confuse relevant critical issues..

    Reply
  4. Baghlani says:
    August 2, 2018 at 4:59 am

    THIS “FOREIGN RAT”
    CALLS HIMSELF
    NASRULLAH !

    Reply
  5. Baghlani says:
    August 2, 2018 at 5:02 am

    DEAR
    BROTHERS AND SISTERS !
    ========
    This is the
    real ugly
    face
    of
    the
    coward invaders !

    Reply
  6. Baghlani says:
    August 2, 2018 at 5:03 am

    *ALL
    FAKES
    AND
    DISTORTIONS !

    Reply
  7. Baghlani says:
    August 2, 2018 at 5:04 am

    -and he thinks, he is
    too smart- how
    funny !

    Reply

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