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| Suicide bomb blast kills at least 60 in Afghan capital | | | |  Kabul 23 April
In Afghanistan, at least 60 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack at a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday.
The dead includes 21 women and five children. The blast occurred in front of a local school where a voter registration site is located.
Several people were near the building before the blast waiting for registering to get voting cards.
The site also distributes national identification cards for voters, who have no IDs yet.
ISIS group claimed responsibility for the attack via its online news portal.
Afghan election officials have slated Oct 20 as the date for the upcoming parliamentary and district council elections, which has been delayed a couple of times over the past years.
The voter registration process started on April 14 for the polls. | | | | |
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