Monday, September 17, 2012

Bomb Explodes Near Afghan Airport, Nine Killed

Suicide bomber near Kabul airport kills nine, including eight foreigners

11:06pm EDT

KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew up a mini-bus carrying foreign and local contract workers near Kabul airport in Afghanistan on Tuesday, with at least nine bodies lying near the wreckage, a Reuters witness at the scene said.

Eight of those killed were foreign workers for an international courier company, a senior police source said, while the other was an Afghan translator. Eight Afghan workers were injured in the blast.

(Reporting by Mirwais Harooni, Writing by Rob Taylor; Editing by Ron Popeski)

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