Afghanistan Suicide Attack

Officials in Kabul, say at least forty people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a Shi'ite cultural centre in the west of the Afghan capital. An interior ministry spokesman said the main explosion was followed by two other blasts.

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(Photo: Afghan women mourn inside a hospital compound after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. Credit: Reuters)