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Acting Afghan governor hurt in Khost's blast - general

(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-01-07 15:50
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KHOST, Afghanistan: The acting governor of Afghanistan's southeastern Khost province and several other senior provincial officials were wounded on Thursday by a blast inside the governor's office, an Afghan army general said.

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"The acting governor, his chief of staff, the head of education and five other people, including police were wounded in the blast," he said.

The blast came a week after a suicide bomber killed seven CIA officials and a Jordanian spy at a base in the province, where US-led forces have been fighting the Taliban-linked network of commander Jalaluddin Haqqani, based across the Pakistan border.

There was no immediate report of a claim of responsibility for Thursday's blast, but Haqqani's followers and Taliban allies have carried out numerous attacks in the past in the province and the provincial capital.
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