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WORLD NEWSMonday 18 January 2016
Suicide bomber kills 13 in attack on prominent Afghan family
LYNNE O’DONNELL iban. No one immediate- Afghan security personnel, stand guard in near the site of a suicide attack, inside resident house,
HUMAYOON BABUR ly claimed responsibility in Jalalabad, capital of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016. Several people
Associated Press for the attack. A Taliban were killed and others wounded in a suicide attack at the home of a prominent politician in the
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — spokesman tweeted that increasingly volatile eastern city of Jalalabad, an Afghan official said on Sunday.
A suicide bomber target- his group was not involved.
ing a gathering in a vola- The head of the council, (AP Photos/Mohammad Anwar Danishyar)
tile eastern province of Af- Ahmad Ali Hazrat, told The
ghanistan killed 13 people, Associated Press that the 15 years of Taliban insur- wounded in the attack, is governor — held a dem-
including seven members bomber mingled with a gency. but not seriously, accord- onstration calling on au-
of a prominent pro-govern- crowd at the family event The family and guests had ing to Zabiullah Zamaray, thorities to rid the region
ment clan, Afghan officials in the provincial capital of gathered to mark the re- another provincial council of insurgents, including a
said. Jalalabad before setting lease of another of Os- member. newly formed Islamic State
Another 14 people were off his payload. man’s sons, Samiullah, The day before the at- affiliate that recently seized
wounded in the attack on Malik Osman, the head eight months after he was tack, hundreds of residents parts of the province after
the home of Obaidullah of the family and a re- kidnapped and held by of Achin district — where a summer of fierce fighting
Shinwari, a scion of the clan spected community elder the Taliban. Samiullah was Shinwari’s nephew Nasim with the Taliban. q
and member of the Nan- in the Shinwar district near
garhar provincial council the Pakistan border was
who was not harmed in the wounded and flown to Ka-
attack, the officials said. bul for treatment, Hazrat
The attack came a day said.
before a second round of The family has strongly sup-
international talks aimed ported President Ashraf
at reviving the peace pro- Ghani’s efforts to bring
cess between the Afghan peace to the country after
government and the Tal- almost 40 years of war and
Syria: IS group killed 300 in attacks in east
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s gov- tremist group, which con- Zour province and much of
ernment said Sunday that trols large parts of Syria and the capital with the same
Islamic State militants Iraq and has killed thou- name, while the govern-
slaughtered 300 people in sands of people in both ment controls several dis-
an “appalling massacre” countries. tricts in the northern part of
committed in the eastern The Britain-based Syr- the city and the adjacent
city of Deir el-Zour in day- ian Observatory for Human military airport.
long attacks that saw the Rights, which documents Most of the casualties
extremists make significant all sides of the Syria con- took place in the area of
advances in the contested flict through activists on the Baghaliyeh near the city.
region. ground, The Lebanon-based Al-
The state-run SANA news said late Saturday that Mayadeen TV, which is
agency said that most of at least 135 people were close to the Syrian govern-
those killed in Saturday’s killed. ment, also reported a mas-
attacks were elderly peo- It said around 80 of them sacre and said IS killed doz-
ple, women and children were soldiers and pro-gov- ens of people,
while opposition activists ernment militiamen and including women and chil-
said many of the victims the rest civilians. dren, and threw their bod-
were Syrian soldiers and It added that many of ies in the Euphrates River. It
pro-government militiamen them were shot dead or said the group took more
and their families. beheaded. than 400 civilians hostage.
The killings are some of the The Islamic State group The reports could not be in-
worst carried out by the ex- controls most of Deir el- dependently confirmed.q
