A Plague on the Nation

Afghan Bomber Kills 90, Including Five Lawmakers, Reuters Says
2007-11-06 08:41 (New York)


By Patrick Donahue
    Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- At least 90 people were killed and
another 50 were wounded in northern Afghanistan when a suicide
bomber attacked a parliamentary delegation touring a sugar
factory, Reuters reported, citing a local hospital.
    Ninety bodies had been brought to the hospital, the director
told the newswire. Five lawmakers, including opposition spokesman
Mostafa Kazemi, were among the dead, the newswire cited a
provincial governor as saying.
    Damage from the suicide bombing today in the northern town
of Baghlan couldn't be assessed immediately because of the
magnitude of the attack, Reuters cited Baghlan intelligence chief
Abdurrahman Sayedkhail as saying.
    A stepped-up insurgency led by the Islamist Taliban movement
has targeted foreign troops and the government of President Hamid
Karzai this year. Most of the violence has focused in the south
and in the east along the border with Pakistan, leaving northern
Afghanistan relatively untouched.

--Editors: H. Langan (jjd)

To contact the reporter on this story:
Patrick Donahue in Berlin at +49-30-70010-6220 or at
pdonahue1@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Peter Torday at +44-20-7330-7539 or
ptorday@bloomberg.net.

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