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Blast rocks Afghan city killing at least seven: officials
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, July 1, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – An explosion in a city in
eastern Afghanistan where President Ashraf Ghani was visiting killed at least
seven people, officials said Sunday.
A hospital official told AFP that seven bodies and several wounded had been
taken to the medical facility in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar
province.
Ghani’s spokesman confirmed the president was still in Nangarhar but was
“away from danger”.
BSS/AFP/FI/ 1905 hrs