The World : Afghan Rebels Attacked
A truck bomb exploded outside an Afghan guerrilla office in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 10 people and wounding 62. A group of Pakistanis, unhappy at the presence of hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees in and around Peshawar, 30 miles from the Afghan border, later attacked the refugees, and up to four people were reported killed. Afghan guerrillas blamed Soviet and Afghan agents for the bomb, which exploded outside the military office of Jamiat-i-Islami, one of the main guerrilla groups fighting the Soviet-backed Marxist government in Afghanistan.
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