The World - News from July 19, 1987
A bomb exploded in a Soviet residential district in the Afghan capital of Kabul, killing at least three people and seriously injuring 10, Afghan radio reported. The bomb, attached to a motorcycle, exploded in an area where most of the families of Soviet civilian and military advisers as well as Afghan Communist Party officials live, the radio said. It blamed the attack on “subversive elements,” a term that often applies to the Western-backed resistance opposed to Afghanistan’s Soviet-backed government. Meanwhile, in Islamabad, Pakistan, a resistance commander said that rebels wounded or killed up to 1,000 Soviet troops earlier this month.
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