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Terrorists Attack International Aid Group in Eastern Afghanistan

by VOA News

   The office of the international aid agency Save the Children in the
   eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad was attacked Wednesday.

   Attullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the provincial government of
   Nangarhar, says a group of armed men stormed the compound after a
   suicide bomber detonated a car bomb at the entrance. Khogyani says 11
   people were wounded in the attack.

   There was no immediate claim of responsibility from the attackers.
   Nangarhar province, located along the border with Pakistan, has become
   a stronghold Islamic State and other terrorist groups in recent years.

   Wednesday's attack in Jalalabad comes just days after gunmen stormed a
   luxury hotel in the capital, Kabul, killing at least 20 people, many of
   them foreigners.