The World - News from June 17, 1985
About 140 people were killed when a rebel bomb wrecked a large building in Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan, guerrilla sources reported in Islamabad, Pakistan. They said rescuers dug bodies out of the debris for up to four days after the blast June 5 at the Haji Saleem Shah Building and that most of those killed were members of the ruling Communist Party. The guerrilla sources also said rebels launched a rocket attack on Gardez airport in eastern Afghanistan last week. No independent confirmation of the reports was available.
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