{"id":94592,"date":"2020-05-14T04:14:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T04:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/suicide-car-bombing-kills-5-civilians-in-gardez\/"},"modified":"2020-05-14T04:14:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T04:14:37","slug":"suicide-car-bombing-kills-5-civilians-in-gardez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/suicide-car-bombing-kills-5-civilians-in-gardez\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide car bombing kills 5 civilians in Gardez"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GARDEZ (SW) – A suicide car bombing in Gardez city on Thursday killed at least five civilians and wounded 15 others.<\/p>\n

The Afghan National Army’s 203 – Thunder Corps said in a statement that five civilians got martyred and 15 others got wounded in this attack that also injured five soldiers.<\/p>\n

Earlier, spokesman for the Interior Ministry Tariq Aryan said in a statement the attack took place near the military courts in Gardez city, the capital of Paktia province. "This attack is carried out by the Haqqani Network and Lashkar-e-Taiba. The attack is in connection with the string of attacks in Kabul's Dasht-e-Barchi and Nangarhar," he said.<\/p>\n

The Taliban took responsibility for the attack. In a statement, the group dubbed it as response to the security forces adopting offensive posture against the insurgents in the country after string of terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

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