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Kandahar police claim progress in attack probe

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KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): The police chief on Monday said 17 suspects have been arrested so far in connection with Tuesday’s deadly bomb blast at the governor’s house of southern Kandahar province.

The blast that ripped through a government guesthouse inside the governor’s house left several dead including five UAE diplomats, two Afghan lawmakers and the deputy governor of Kandahar, Abdul Ali Shamsi.

Gen. Abdul Raziq, the Kandahar police chief who attended a memorial service for Abdul Ali Shamsi, told reporters here that teams from central capital