Bomber 'kills 45' at Afghanistan volleyball match

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Bomber 'kills 45' at Afghanistan volleyball match

(BBC) A suicide bomber has killed at least 45 people at a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.

A spokesman for the governor of Paktika province told the BBC that the attacker had detonated the bomb amid a crowd of people gathering for a game.

About 60 people were also wounded in the bombing in Yahyakhail district.

It came after Afghan MPs approved security deals allowing Nato and US soldiers to remain after the withdrawal of most foreign troops next month.

The total number of soldiers in the new Nato force will be about 12,000. Their mission has been defined as training, advising and assisting the Afghan security forces.

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There will also be a separate US-led force dealing with the remnants of al-Qaeda.

It emerged on Saturday, however, that President Barack Obama has approved guidelines to allow US troops to fight the Taliban and provide air support for Afghan missions.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30169457


-- BBC 2014-11-24

[JockPieandBeans]

No doubt a volleyball game was seen as Western influence and could not be tolerated.

[cookee68]

No doubt a volleyball game was seen as Western influence and could not be tolerated.

But so are the Mobiles, computers etc what they use, that's Muslims Terrorist for you, they don't need an excuse.

[simple1]

The BBC's Richard Galpin, who is in Kabul, says a doctor at the local hospital was crying as he spoke of treating many wounded children.

The Taliban had banned games, but Volleyball is among the most popular forms of entertainment in rural Afghanistan and the locals carried on playing, in this instance paid in blood.

One has to feel immense sorrow for the suffering over decades of the Afghan people who have been subjected to the cruelties of the Russian intervention, strategic errors on some aspects of foreign intervention, warlords, extremists and Islamic clerics.