{"id":345076,"date":"2011-03-28T10:50:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T10:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/28\/suicide-attack-kills-at-least-13-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T10:50:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T10:50:06","slug":"suicide-attack-kills-at-least-13-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/28\/suicide-attack-kills-at-least-13-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide attack kills at least 13 in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"67.759899434318\">  <!-- start feedback link --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/feedback link -->       <!-- Tracking values --><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_start --><!--startclickprintinclude-->   <!--endclickprintinclude--> <!--startclickprintexclude--> <!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"45.854253112033\"><!-- google_ad_section_start --><!-- CONTENT -->  <!-- REAP --><!--startclickprintexclude--><\/p>\n<div readability=\"6.5\">\n<div readability=\"8\"><!--===========CAPTION==========--><\/p>\n<p>Soldiers with the NATO-led ISAF and Afghan policemen investigate at the site of an explosion in Kabul in January.<\/p>\n<p><!--===========\/CAPTION=========--><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!--endclickprintexclude--><!-- \/REAP --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><b>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul><!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<li>NEW:  NATO, provincial and national officials have separate accounts of a bombing<\/li>\n<li>ISAF: Contractors working for NATO were staying at the school<\/li>\n<li>They were staying in the Bermal district of Paktika province<\/li>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--> <!--startclickprintinclude--> <\/p>\n<p><b>Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)<\/b> &#8212; A suicide bombing targeting contractors working in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 13 people and wounded 50 others, according to conflicting accounts by NATO and government officials Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan Interior Ministry described an attack that killed 20 construction workers and wounded 56 others.<\/p>\n<p>The governor&#8217;s office in Paktika Province had a third account of a suicide attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twenty-four people were killed and 59 people were injured while a car bomb full of explosive devices entered in to Zahir Construction Company and detonated the explosive at 8:30 p.m. last night,&#8221; the governor&#8217;s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear if NATO&#8217;s International Security Assistance Force and Afghan officials were talking about the same incident.<\/p>\n<p>In ISAF&#8217;s account, an attacker drove a car bomb into a madrasa, a religious school, in the Bermal district of Paktika Province at 12:30 a.m Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Afghan contractors working for ISAF at a nearby base were staying at the school at the time of the attack, according to the force.<\/p>\n<p>The Interior Ministry said three suicide bombers using a truck full of explosives attacked the Zahir Construction Company four hours earlier on Sunday, killing a security guard, entering the company&#8217;s compound and detonating the explosives. <\/p>\n<p>The ministry said it condemns the suicide attack in the &#8220;strongest terms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have launched an investigation, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p><b>CNN&#8217;s Matiullah Mati contributed to this report.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--endclickprintinclude--><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br \/>\n<!-- \/cnn_strybtmcntnt --><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/cnn_strycntnt --><!-- \/cnn_strycntntrgt --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>[Read more here|Read the original here|Read more from the original source|Continued here|Read more|More here|View original post here|More|See more here|See original here|Originally posted here|Here is the original post|See the original post|The rest is here|Read the rest here|See the rest here|Go here to read the rest|Go here to see the original|See the original post here|Read the original post|Original post|Read the original|Link|Excerpt from|View post|Visit link|Follow this link|Continue reading here|See the article here|Read this article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Soldiers with the NATO-led ISAF and Afghan policemen investigate at the site of an explosion in Kabul in January. STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: NATO, provincial and national officials have separate accounts of a bombing ISAF: Contractors working for NATO were staying at the school They were staying in the Bermal district of Paktika province Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) &#8212; A suicide bombing targeting contractors working in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 13 people and wounded 50 others, according to conflicting accounts by NATO and government officials Monday. 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