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Caveat emptor re: any government sources from Cuba or China, but I wouldn't have this if it wasn't attributed to a pretty senior AFG district official. There's no confirmation from MSM elsewhere, and I'll share corroborating or contradicting info as I spot any - .pdfs of original stories attached in case links don't work or disappear. If true, speedy recovery to all the injured.
"Explosive Attack against NATO in Afghanistan"
"Suicide attack kills 2, wounds 10 in S Afghanistan"
This, from the German national wire service
and, for what it's worth, the Taliban's version of events....
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"Explosive Attack against NATO in Afghanistan"
Kabul, Jan 8 (Prensa Latina) At least three people died and another 10 were injured in a dynamite explosion Thursday against the Canadian troops fighting at the side of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the southern province of Kandahar, military sources said Thursday. The attack occurred when a man carrying the explosive load adhered to his own body, got close to the soldiers and the explosive device blew up around the commercial center of Maywand, as told by Police Chief Mematullah Khan. Preliminary reports said three Canadian soldiers were injured and transferred in a helicopter to a hospital in the military base of Kandahar. However, the spokesman of the Afghan rebels, Mohamad Yusuf Ahmadi, claimed responsibility for the attack on a phone call, and told press media it had been addressed against Canadian soldiers. Ahmadi said 15 Canadian soldiers died in the attack, and two of their tanks had been destroyed....
"Suicide attack kills 2, wounds 10 in S Afghanistan"
A suicide bomber exploded himself Thursday afternoon near a patrol of international troops stationed in southern Afghan province of Kandahar, killing two civilians and wounding ten others including at least two foreign soldiers, said a police official. Mematullah Khan, police chief of Maywand district in Kandahar province, told Xinhua that it occurred at around 5 p.m. local time (1230 GMT) when the suicide bomber with explosive strapped under clothes approached the international troops on foot around district center then blew himself up. "The blast left two civilians dead on the spot and 10 others wounded including at least two foreign soldiers," Mematullah Khan said. "The wounded soldiers have been evacuated by military plane to their base for treatment," he added. The police official said it happened in one crowded bazaar where many shops got burned due to the explosion....
This, from the German national wire service
A suicide attack targeting a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan on Thursday killed three Afghan civilians and wounded ten others, local officials said. Taliban representatives said the attack was carried out by one of their bombers, who attacked a convoy of NATO-led Canadian forces near the main market of Maiwand district in southern Kandahar province on Thursday afternoon. "Three civilians were killed and seven others, including two children were wounded in the blast," Naimatullah Khan, the district police chief, said. He could not say if there were any casualties among the Canadian forces. Another police official, who declined to be named, said that three NATO soldiers were also wounded in the attack and were evacuated by helicopter to a military hospital at Kandahar airfield....
and, for what it's worth, the Taliban's version of events....
Thursday noon 08-01-2009 at approximately 4.45 pm local time, a courageous Mujahid of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Hafiz Muhammad of Kandahar province, carried out a martyrdom operation against the Canadian invader forces in a bazaar in Mewand district of Kandahar province, the Mujahid stuck the enemy tanks as the enemy terrorists were standing around them and some were inside them, the blasts was so powerful that it completely destroyed both tanks and killed fifteen Canadian invader terrorists. We ask Allah to accept our brother among martyrs in Eelleyeen (high rank in the paradise). All praise and gratitude are due to Allah. Reported by Qari Muhammad Yousuf
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