The World - News from Sept. 12, 1988
A car bomb exploded in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, killing 10 people and wounding at least 22 others, Kabul Radio reported. It said several women and children were among the dead in the blast near the Pakistani Embassy in a busy shopping district. The Soviet news agency Tass put the number of injured at 40 and blamed Afghan guerrillas for the bomb. U.S.-backed guerrillas fighting the Soviet-backed Afghan government have staged almost daily attacks on Kabul recently using rockets.
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