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    March 25, 2012

At Least 8 Killed in Afghan Bomb Blast

   VOA News

   Officials in Afghanistan say a bomb blast has killed at least 8 people,
   including several police officers. Authorities say the explosion
   happened Saturday in Arghandab, in the southern province of Kandahar.
   NATO said Saturday one of its service members had died in a bomb blast
   in southern Afghanistan. It was not immediately clear if this referred
   to the incident in Kandahar or an incident elsewhere in southern
   Afghanistan.
   Kandahar is the birthplace of the Taliban and remains a stronghold of
   the militants who have been fighting the government of President Hamid
   Karzai and its Western allies since being ousted from power a decade
   ago.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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