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Six dead in suicide attack near mosque in Kabul: police

By AFP
September 29, 2017

KABUL: Six people were killed and 16 others wounded when a suicide attacker posing as a shepherd blew himself up near a mosque in Kabul on Friday, police said.

"The bomber was grazing a herd of sheep and before reaching his target he detonated himself 140 metres from Hussainia mosque," General Salim Almas, Kabul´s criminal investigative director, told AFP.