Suicide bomber kills four civilians in bazaar near Jalalabad
KABUL/JALALABAD: A roadside bomb attack killed four NATO soldiers near Kabul,
| May the knowledge they died to keep us safe bring comfort to those they left behind. |
while a suicide bomber struck a crowded bazaar near Jalalabad on Monday, killing four civilians and wounding another 14 in a remote town in the east of the country.
| The Taliban, like jihadis everywhere making friends the only way they know how. |
In the first incident, a roadside bomb went off and killed four foreign soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.
"Four ISAF service members died following an improvised explosive device attack in eastern Afghanistan today," ISAF said. "It is ISAF policy to defer casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities."
ISAF did not give further details of who was involved, what exactly happened or where it occurred, in line with its policy.
In the second incident, a suicide bomber struck a crowded Afghan bazaar on Monday, killing four civilians and wounding another 14 in a remote town in the east of the country. "Four civilians were martyred and another 14 were wounded," provincial governor's spokesman Faizanullah Pattan told AFP, adding that he did not know what the attacker's target had been.
| Nor the age and mental capability of the suicide bomber... |
There were no government offices or military patrols in the area where the incident happened in the small town of Najeel Khail in Alishing district of Laghman province, about 100 kilometres east of the capital Kabul. The explosives were strapped to the bomber's body, the spokesman said.| And the Taliban have not claimed the attack. No surprise. |
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