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Bomb rips through wedding in Kabul
A suicide bomb attack on a wedding in the Afghan capital has caused many casualties.
A bomb has exploded at a wedding reception in the Afghan capital, Kabul. An interior ministry spokesman has said dozens of civilians were killed.
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(Picture: An Afghan woman who has lost her husband grieves at the door of the hospital, after a suicide attacker detonated explosives at a wedding in Kabul, Afghanistan, 18 August 2019. Credit: EPA/JAWAD JALALI)
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