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Seven killed, 14 injured in Helmand bomb blast
Kandahar (Afghanistan), Feb.23 (ANI): At least seven Afghan civilians were killed in a remote-controlled bomb explosion in Lashkar Gah, the capital of southern Helmand province, on Tuesday.
Another 14 were wounded in the blast that took place in front of a government building.
"The blast was caused by explosives attached to a bicycle and was controlled remotely," a foreign news agency quoted Dawud Ahmadi, spokesman for Helmand's provincial government, as saying.
All the casualties were civilians, he added. (ANI)
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Story first published: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 19:41 [IST]