Targeted Attacks Continue to Take Toll in December in Afghanistan January 02,2021
KABUL - At least 60 people were killed and many others wounded in targeted attacks across Afghanistan in December, according to official figures kept by Xinhua. On Thursday, Hajji Bahramudin, a driver of Administrative Office of country s Presidential Palace, was killed and his boss Mohammad Jawid Wali was critically wounded after their vehicle was struck by an improvised bomb in Police District (PD) 7 of national capital Kabul. On Wednesday, a pilot of Afghan Air Force, Ahmad Massoud Attal, was shot and killed by gunmen in southern Kandahar province. The gunmen escaped after the shooting.
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2021-01-01 09:05:37 GMT2021-01-01 17:05:37(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
KABUL, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) At least 60 people were killed and many others wounded in targeted attacks across Afghanistan in December, according to official figures kept by Xinhua.
On Thursday, Hajji Bahramudin, a driver of Administrative Office of country s Presidential Palace, was killed and his boss Mohammad Jawid Wali was critically wounded after their vehicle was struck by an improvised bomb in Police District (PD) 7 of national capital Kabul.
On Wednesday, a pilot of Afghan Air Force, Ahmad Massoud Attal, was shot and killed by gunmen in southern Kandahar province. The gunmen escaped after the shooting.
2020-12-31 13:05:54 GMT2020-12-31 21:05:54(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
KABUL, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) Target killing has increased in insurgency-plagued Afghanistan as two civilians were killed and four others including two civilians sustained injury in blasts in the capital Kabul and the eastern Jalalabad city on Thursday.
In the first blast, which targeted a car in Police District 7 of the Kabul city in the morning rush hours, claimed the life of a civilian and injured two others, Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz confirmed without providing more details.
Local media reported the dead was identified as a person who worked for the Administrative Office of the President.
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