Taliban sofa bomb kills prominent Afghan election candidate
A former Communist general turned prominent politician has been killed by a Taliban bomb hidden in his sofa as he campaigned for this weekend's parliamentary election in Abdul Jabar Qahraman became the 10th election candidate to die ahead of Saturday's polls when the blast tore through his campaign office. took responsibility for the attack, which also killed three of Mr Qahraman's companions in the capital of Helmand province. A Taliban statement said they had killed “a renowned communist". The dead candidate had been a key figure in the ...
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