Afghan official: Suicide bombing in east kills 16

Author: Associated Press
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – A suicide bomber attacked a demonstration in an eastern city, killing 16 people and wounding 40.

Mubarez Mohammed Zadran, the spokesman for the governor of Khost province, says the explosion happened during an anti-corruption demonstration near the center of the provincial capital of the same name.

Zadran says a local member of parliament, Hamayun Hamayoon, was among the wounded.

Khost is a volatile province along the Pakistan border where the Taliban have an entrenched, long-term presence. In recent months, hundreds of thousands of people have arrived in the province fleeing a Pakistani army offensive against Taliban positions across the border.

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