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Jalalabad, May 12 (EFE/EPA).- At least 15 people were killed on Tuesday in a suicide attack at the funeral of a local police commander in Nangarhar province, eastern Afghanistan, according to the local media. (Camera: GHULAMULLAH HABIBI).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE SHIFT INJURED VICTIMS OF A SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK TO A HOSPITAL IN JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN.
Jalalabad, Jun 15 (EFE/EPA).- Militants killed five health workers and wounded four in a series of attacks on anti-polio teams in the eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said.The officials said the attacks took place in Surkhrod and Khogyani districts and Jalalabad city of the volatile province a day after the national immunization campaign against the virus kicked off in the country.Ramiz Alakbarov, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, said the gunmen attacked health workers during “their life-saving work” in five locations in Nangarhar province. (Camera: GHULAMULLAH HABIBI).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE HELP TRANSFER THE BODY OF ONE OF THE POLIO VACCINATION WORKERS WHO WAS KILLED IN JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN.
Kabul, Dec 15 (EFE/EPA).- Kabul's Deputy Governor Mohibullah Mohammadi and his assistant were killed on Tuesday in a bomb attack on their vehicle in the Afghan capital, in what is the latest targeted attack amid peace talks between the government and the Taliban.The attack occurred around 9.40am in the Macroyan 4 area of eastern Kabul when a magnetic bomb attached to the vehicle in which the deputy governor, his assistant and two bodyguards were travelling exploded, interior Ministry spokesperson Tariq Arian said on Twitter.The deputy governor and his assistant were killed while the bodyguards were wounded, revealed the spokesperson, describing the attack as a war crime. (Camera: HEDAYATULLAH AMID).SHOT LIST: AFGHAN SECURITY OFFICIALS SECURE THE SCENE AFTER KABUL'S DEPUTY GOVERNOR MOHABBATULLAH MOHAMMADI AND HIS SECRETARY WERE KILLED IN A MAGNETIC IED EXPLOSION IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN.
Khogyani, Feb 7 (EFE/EPA).- At least one police officer was killed and two others injured Sunday in a suicide car bomb blast that targeted a police post on the outskirts of Khogyani district of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan.The Afghan conflict left more than 2,500 civilian casualties in the last quarter of 2020, with a significant increase in the use of explosive devices, according to the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). (Camera: GHULAMULLAH HABIBI).SHOT LIST: AFGHAN SECURITY OFFICIALS INSPECT THE SCENE OF A SUICIDE CAR BOMB BLAST ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF KHOGYANI DISTRICT OF NANGARHAR PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN.
Helmand (Afghanistan), Jun 29 (EFE / EPA).- At least 23 people have been killed and another 15 were injured on Monday in a bomb attack at a market in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, the provincial government said in a statement.FOOTAGE OF THE AREA WHERE THE BOMB ATTACK TOOK PLACE.
Kandahar Oct 15 (EFE / EPA).- Several worshipers died and many others suffered injuries in a powerful explosion that ripped through a Shia mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during Friday prayers, officials said.The official feared that the death toll was likely to increase.The blast took place in the city's Imam Bargah mosque and came days after a suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State on a Shia mosque in the northern city of Kunduz killed 80 and wounded about 100 people. (Camera: STRINGER). SHOT LIST: POST-EXPLOSION IN KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN.
Kabul, Oct 3 (EFE/EPA).- At least two civilians were killed and three were wounded on Sunday in a blast near a mosque in in the Afghan capital Kabul where a prayer ceremony was being held for the death of the Taliban spokesperson's mother.“Our initial information suggests at least two people martyred and three people injured in today’s blast,” Taliban Interior Ministry spokesman, Qari Saeed Khosty told Efe, adding that the information was still preliminary and the death toll could change in the coming hours.The attack took place shortly after 4pm local time near the entrance of the Eid Gah mosque, where many civilians had gathered. (Camera: EPA).SHOT LIST: THE SCENE OF A BOMB BLAST IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN .
US Central Command commander General Kenneth McKenzie admits the United States made a "mistake" when it launched a drone strike against suspected Islamic State militants in the Afghan capital Kabul on August 29, confirming that it killed 10 civilians instead. "The strike was a tragic mistake," McKenzie tells reporters at a Pentagon briefing after an investigation. SOUNDBITE