Bombs kill eight in Afghanistan

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Wednesday 08 August 2012

Bombs kill eight in Afghanistan

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An Afghan policeman keeps watch at the site where a remote-controlled bomb hit a bus, in the Paghman district of Kabul

Reuters/Omar Sobhani

By Rosslyn Hyams

In Afghanistan on Tuesday Taliban rebels strapped a bomb to a donkey which exploded killing the district police chief of Charsada, central Ghor province. Nato forces were also targeted, in an ambush and in a suicide truck explosion at a Nato site and a French soldier was killed in Kapisa province. An NGO worker in Kabul discusses these and other events in Afghanistan.

Dossier: AfPak news and analysis