Blast injures governor of Afghanistan’s Khost province
By APThursday, January 7, 2010
Blast injures governor of Afghanistan’s Khost
KABUL — An Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman says the governor of a restive eastern province is slightly injured after a bomb exploded in a garbage container outside the governor’s compound.
The midday Thursday blast broke windows in the building and Gov. Tahr Khan Sabari was cut by the glass but not seriously injured, ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary told The Associated Press. He said no one else was injured.
Khost borders Pakistan, where a suicide bomber on Dec. 30 killed seven CIA employees at an agency base.
The province is one of Afghanistan’s most troubled. On Wednesday, at least 15 people were injured in a blast outside a shop in Khost city, the provincial center.
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