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Warlord
06-03-2013, 04:50 AM
Nine school pupils and a policeman have been killed in a suicide bombing outside a market in east Afghanistan, police said. The attacker was reportedly targeting a passing US military patrol but it was unclear if there were any American casualties.

General Zelmia Oryakhail, provincial police chief of Paktia province, said the bomber was on a motorbike and detonated his explosives at midday on Monday outside the market in Samkani district as the American forces passed. He said a local school had just let students out for lunch.

He said 15 other students were wounded. He did not say how old they were.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/03/schoolchildren-killed-afghanistan-suicide-bomb-market

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2 International troops also killed in the attack. Likely American but identities withheld pending notification of family members.