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Around 65 killed in Taliban attack on Afghan intel base: local official
GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Jan 22, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Around 65 people were killed
in a Taliban-claimed attack on an Afghan intelligence base, a local official
said Tuesday, raising the toll substantially from 12 announced previously.
“We took about 65 bodies out of the rubble yesterday,” Mohammad Sardar
Bakhyari, deputy head of the provincial council in Wardak province, where the
attack occurred on Monday in the latest blow to beleaguered security forces.
A senior security official who spoke on condition of anonymity gave an even
higher toll of at least 70 killed.
BSS/AFP/MSY/1353 hrs