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Death Toll in Afghan Wedding Attack Rises to 80

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   VOA correspondent Ayaz Gul contributed to this report from Islamabad.

   The death toll from a suicide bomb attack at a wedding in the Afghan
   capital, Kabul, last week has risen to 80, officials said.

   The initial death toll from Saturday's blast was 63 but jumped to 80
   after 17 civilians died from their wounds in recent days, Interior
   Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said Wednesday.

   "Seventeen others have succumbed to their injuries in hospital and over
   160 are still being treated either in hospitals or at home," Rahimi
   said.

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