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Hundreds attend candlelight vigil in Jalalabad

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JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Hundreds of civil society activists on Friday attended a candlelight vigil to mourn those killed in a terrorist attack near the Pakistani consulate in eastern Nangarhar province.

Seven security officials were killed and another 11 people were wounded on Wednesday morning following a suicide attack and a gun-battle that lasted four hours in Jalalabad, the provincial capital.

One of the vigil organisers, Irfanullah Baidar, told Pajhwok Afghan News hundreds of civil society activists and youth gathered near the guesthouse  from where the attackers had . . .

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