Deadly pre-poll attack hits Kabul

18 August 2009

A bomb attack apparently targeting a Nato convoy in Afghanistan has killed at least seven people, two days before the country's presidential election.
The dead include Nato soldiers and Afghans working for the UN, officials in Kabul say.
Dozens were also hurt in the blast on the outskirts of Kabul - the second suicide attack in three days.
Militants had threatened to disrupt Thursday's vote in which Hamid Karzai is tipped to be re-elected president.
The BBC's Hugh Sykes, in Kabul, says the attacks demonstrate that determined militants can penetrate Kabul's election security.
He says the bombings are likely to make people nervous about going to vote on Thursday.
Witnesses said the bomb detonated near a bustling market, and children were among the wounded.
"It was a suicide attack... targeting a supply convoy of foreign forces," Kabul police chief Sayed Abdul Ghafar Sayedzada said, according to AFP news agency.
Correspondents say Thursday's vote is taking place amid an upsurge in violence across the country.
It is Afghanistan's second presidential election since the US-led invasion in 2001 toppled the Taliban regime. source: bbc.com

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