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Gunmen Attack Sikh Temple in Kabul

VOA News

   A Sikh religious compound was attacked in the Afghan capital of Kabul
   Wednesday.

   A spokesman for the Interior Ministry says security forces have blocked
   off the area around the temple and have exchanged fire with the gunmen.

   NarindraSingh Khalsa, a Sikh lawmaker, told news outlets that four
   people had been killed and more than 100 people trapped inside the
   temple.

   No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

   Afghanistan's minority Sikh community has been targeted numerous times
   by Islamic extremists in recent years. A suicide bomber killed more
   than a dozen people in the eastern city of Jalalabad in 2018 in an
   attack claimed by Islamic State.

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