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Death Toll In Afghan Election Rally Attack Rises To 22

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Afghan commuters wait in a traffic jam next to billboards of candidates Allhaj Allah Gull Mujahed (R), Allhaj Qudratullah Sahak (C) and Wahidullah Radmanish during the parliamentary election campaign, in Kabul on October 14, 2018.

 

The death toll in a bomb attack on an Afghan election rally has risen to at least 22 people, officials said on Sunday, as the country braces for more violence ahead of the October 20 poll.

Dozens of people were killed or wounded in parliamentary election-related attacks across Afghanistan on Saturday as militants step up attacks on the ballot.

A motorcycle carrying explosives detonated among supporters of Nazifa Yousefibek, a female candidate for the northeastern province of Takhar, provincial governor spokesman Mohammad Jawad Hejri told AFP.

Most of the 22 killed and 36 wounded were civilians, he said.

Provincial health director Hafizullah Safi put the death toll slightly higher at 23.

In the western province of Herat, two gunmen attacked the campaign office of a candidate in Injeel district, killing two people, provincial governor spokesman Jailani Farhad said.

A nine-year-old boy and a security guard died in the attack and two others were wounded.

Violence related to the long-delayed legislative vote has killed or wounded hundreds of people in recent months.

At least nine candidates have died so far, most of them in targeted killings, according to the Independent Election Commission.

AFP

The post Death Toll In Afghan Election Rally Attack Rises To 22 appeared first on Channels Television.

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