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Published on June 12, 2012
8 KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN'S TALIBAN BOMB ATTACK
- Taliban bomb attacks killed at least eight people, including women and children, in Afghanistan on Tuesday, June 12 officials said, according to AFP.
A suicide bomber on a bicycle targeted a police patrol in the main market of Chahar Bolak, a small town in the northern province of Balkh, regional police spokesman Lal Mohammad Ahmadzi told AFP.
The interior ministry in Kabul confirmed the incident, saying three civilians were killed and five police officers were wounded.
Hours earlier, a roadside bomb ripped through a minibus in the central province of Wardak, killing five civilians, an official said.
Provincial government spokesman Sahidullah Shahid said a mine exploded under the minibus, killing five civilians, including women and children. "Two others are injured," Shahid said.
Four other passengers survived the explosion in the restive province's Sayed Abad district, he said.
Authorities blamed both attacks on the "enemies of Afghanistan", a phrase commonly used by Afghan officials to refer to Taliban and other insurgents.
On Monday, a roadside bomb killed five people in northern Afghanistan and last week twin suicide bombings killed 23 people in the south.
Taliban insurgents regularly use improvised roadside bombs to target Afghan and Western military forces, but they often kill civilians who use the same roads.
For the past five years the number of civilians killed in the war has risen steadily, reaching a record 3,021 in 2011 -- the vast majority caused by insurgents, the United Nations says.
The Taliban are still fighting a bitter insurgency more than a decade after being toppled from power by the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.
Headlines for June 12, 2012
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Abrahamyan's ...DAVID NALBANDIAN CLIMBS 39TH IN ATP RANKINGS
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Today in Armenian history- 1200 Birth of Vardan Aigektsee (writer of fables).
- 1724 The Russian-Turkish agreement was signed in Constantinople. Almost the whole of Transcaucasia is ceded to Turkey.
- 1752 Azad Khan marches against the Khanate of Yerevan.
- 1839 The Turkish army is overwhelmed near Nizba (northern Syria) by the Egyptian viceroy's forces.
- 1901 The Tsar lifts the Land Tax and the Tobacco Tax in Transcaucasia. He institutes the Spade Tax.
- 1903 Tsar Nicolas the Second confirms the law on the confiscation and nationalization of Armenian church properties and estates. He closes Armenian Parish Schools.
- 1921 Soviet Armenia declares that Artsakh is an integral part of its territory on the basis of the repeatedy expressed will of the majority of its population.
- 1957 Birth of Monte Melkonyan (Commander of Artsakh forces in Martooni). He died in 1993.
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