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Twin suicide blasts kill 20 in Afghan south-police
10 Sep 2007 14:36:53 GMT
Source: Reuters
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept 10 (Reuters) - At least 20 people, most of them civilians, were killed on Monday in two simultaneous suicide attacks in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, a provincial police official said.

Some 45 people were wounded in the twin raids that targeted a group of police in a shopping area of Girishk district of the province, a long-time bastion of Islamist Taliban guerrillas and the main drug-producing region of Afghanistan -- the world's largest producer of heroin.


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