Suicide Bomber Kills 9 Soldiers, Wounds 28
From Times Wire Reports
A uniformed man on a motorbike detonated a bomb outside an Afghan army training center in eastern Kabul where soldiers were waiting to take buses home, killing nine people and wounding 28 in a rare suicide attack.
Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammed Zahir Azimi said authorities had yet to identify the bomber, but he blamed “international terrorists.”
The blast left three minibuses blackened and badly damaged, one lying on its side.
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