KABUL, AFGHANISTAN Afghan Authorities said Sunday that at least 34 people were killed in two separate suicide bombings that targeted a military base and a provincial chief.
In the East Ghazni Province, 31 soldiers were killed and 24 others injured when the attacker drove a military Humvee filled with explosives into an army command base before detonating the car bomb, according to an Afghan National Security Council official, who spoke anonymously because he was not allowed to speak. directly to the media.
The attack was also confirmed by Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian, although he did not provide details on the victims.
In southern Afghanistan, a suicide car bomb attacked the convoy of a provincial council chief in Zubal, killing at least three people and wounding 12 others, including children.
The head of the provincial council, Attajan Haqbayat, survived Sunday’s attack with minor injuries, although one of his bodyguards was among the dead, provincial police spokesman Hikmatullah Kochai said.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attacks.
The bombings come like Afghan Representatives of the government and the Taliban are holding face-to-face talks in Qatar for the first time to end the decades-long war in the country.
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