A suicide attacker detonated a car packed with explosives in a crowded Afghanistan bazaar on Tuesday. It was the bloodiest attack on civilians since 2008.
It was the bloodiest insurgent attack on civilians since at least 2008, The Guardian reports.
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The attack took place in the Urgun district in Paktika.
"It was a very brutal suicide attack against poor civilians, said Mohammad Reza Kharoti, the administrative chief of the Urgun district. "There was no military base nearby."
The deputy provincial police chief Nasar Ahmad told The Guardian that all of the victims except for two were civilians.
"A man in a Toyota SUV was identified by police as a potential attacker, but when they ordered him to stop for checks, he set off the bomb," Ahmad said.
The army has sent two helicopters as well as ambulances and several hundred soldiers to the Urgun district to help rescue and evacuate victims.
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