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Afghanistan: Roadside bomb kills two children in east
Jalalabad, 12 Nov. (AKI) - A roadside bomb blast killed two children in Khogyani district of Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday, a local official said. The blast ripped through a civilian's tractor, killing two children and wounding two others in the Zawa area, a spokesman for the provincial governor, Ahmad Zai Abdulzai, told Pajhwok Afghan News agency.
No one was immediately arrested over the blast, but the case is under investigation, said Abdulzai.
Also on Thursday, 90 kilogrammes of explosives were found and defused in the Afghan capital Kabul. They were found in a bombed-out house in the city, an interior ministry statement said.
No one has so far been detained in this connection. But police are investigating, the statement said.
Meanwhile, police in Ali Khan Qala area on the Kabul-Gardez Highway of central Logar province said they found explosives beneath a small bridge. US-led coalition forces defused them.
Twenty-six mines found and defused Maidan Wardak, Ghazni and Uruzgan provinces, police said.
The top US military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal has asked for 40,000 troops to combat the increasingly violent violent insurgency that began when US forces toppled the Taliban government in 2001.
But the US ambassador in Kabul, Karl Eikenberry, has said the despatch of thousands more troops to Afghanistan "is not a good idea" until the government tackles corruption in the country.
McChrystal is said to be furious at Eikenberry's remarks, made in two classified cables sent to the White House over the past week, excerpts of which were leaked to the press late on Wednesday.
Eikenberry's messages came amid intense debate over strategy, with US president Barack Obama yet to make a decision on troop numbers.
The dramatic intervention puts the ambassador - a former military commander in Afghanistan - at odds with generals seeking reinforcements.
This year has been the deadliest for foreign soldiers and for Afghan civilians since the Taliban-led insurgency began.
The US currently has some 68,000 troops in Afghanistan, among a coalition force of more than 100,000.
No one was immediately arrested over the blast, but the case is under investigation, said Abdulzai.
Also on Thursday, 90 kilogrammes of explosives were found and defused in the Afghan capital Kabul. They were found in a bombed-out house in the city, an interior ministry statement said.
No one has so far been detained in this connection. But police are investigating, the statement said.
Meanwhile, police in Ali Khan Qala area on the Kabul-Gardez Highway of central Logar province said they found explosives beneath a small bridge. US-led coalition forces defused them.
Twenty-six mines found and defused Maidan Wardak, Ghazni and Uruzgan provinces, police said.
The top US military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal has asked for 40,000 troops to combat the increasingly violent violent insurgency that began when US forces toppled the Taliban government in 2001.
But the US ambassador in Kabul, Karl Eikenberry, has said the despatch of thousands more troops to Afghanistan "is not a good idea" until the government tackles corruption in the country.
McChrystal is said to be furious at Eikenberry's remarks, made in two classified cables sent to the White House over the past week, excerpts of which were leaked to the press late on Wednesday.
Eikenberry's messages came amid intense debate over strategy, with US president Barack Obama yet to make a decision on troop numbers.
The dramatic intervention puts the ambassador - a former military commander in Afghanistan - at odds with generals seeking reinforcements.
This year has been the deadliest for foreign soldiers and for Afghan civilians since the Taliban-led insurgency began.
The US currently has some 68,000 troops in Afghanistan, among a coalition force of more than 100,000.
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