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Blasts in Afghanistan Kill 15

   VOA News 11 December 2010

   Officials  in Afghanistan say a roadside blast has killed 15 civilians
   in the southern part of the country.
   Authorities  said  early Saturday the explosion happened Friday in the
   Khansheen district of Helmand province.
   There   has   been  no  claim  of  responsibility  for  the  bombing.Â
   Provincial officials have blamed the attack on the Taliban.
   Elsewhere,   a   powerful   explosion   hit  Saturday  outside  police
   headquarters in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, wounding four police
   officers and two civilians.
   And  in  Kunduz  province  in  northern  Afghanistan,  officials say a
   suicide  bomber  using  a  police  vehicle  wounded  five soldiers and
   several civilians.

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