Suicide bombings in Iraq and Afghanistan

Canada News.Net
Friday 23rd May, 2008

Police in Iraq have reported that a suicide bomber has killed at least six Iraqi civilians in an attack on a checkpoint in the Sunni Arab town of Fallujah.

They say the suicide bomber targeted a joint Iraqi and US military checkpoint in the Al Julan neighbourhood of Fallujah, 50 kilometres west of the capital Baghdad.

In eastern Afghanistan, a suicide bomber has blown himself up among Afghan soldiers, killing four troops and a child.

The extremist Taliban movement, responsible for a wave of suicide attacks across Afghanistan, said one of its men carried out the blast in the eastern province of Khost.

The bomber, who was on foot, blew himself up near a military vehicle on a main road about 25 kilometres from the border with Pakistan.

Four soldiers were killed and four wounded.

A spokesman for the Khost government said a child was killed and three civilians wounded.

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