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Friday, September 6, 2002
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Car bomb explodes
in Afghan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP)
— After the first bomb explod
ed, Mohammad Halim rushed
to see what was happening.
Minutes later, another huge
blast hurled the teenager onto a
pavement suddenly slippery
with blood and crunching with
shattered glass.
“All the people were run
ning everywhere, shouting,”
Halim said later Thursday
from a hospital bed in Kabul.
I had no idea what happened.
dried fruit from a cart when h<
saw the first bomb explode
which he said came from th«
back of a bicycle.
“I went to s<
pened, then we h
very big blast. I
my cart to look fc
but there was onf
Mohammad hel
dozens of wounde
lances. Then he went f
pital to hospital lookir
brother, but to no avai
exploded outside
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stixvd atop armored carv
veying the scene, nonmall
of the most congested air
the Afghan capital.
Only a heap of tit
metal was left of the cat
carried the explosives.
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police tried to c
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people lying in the street.
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screaming.”
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The car bombing in the cen-
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ted from a scccwx
the bloodiest act of violence
Police
with automi
ny w here a half
since the Taliban fell last year.
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and white helm
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cd Afghans were dr
Afghan state television said at
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a small restaurant
least 26 people were killed and
the
city, i
ordering drivers
to Sa
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150 injured, but police put the
opc
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death toll at 10.
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and glove compt
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where he lived for
The blast came hours before
a failed assassination attempt
on President Hamid Karzai in
the southern city of Kandahar.
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