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3 security forces killed in Paktia car bombing

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GARDEZ (Pajhwok): Three security personnel were killed and eight others, including civilians, wounded as a result of a car bombing targeting Public Protection Force unit in southeastern Paktia province on Tuesday morning.

The car bombing hit a base of the security personnel guarding infrastructure projects in Gardez, the provincial capital, at around 5:30am.

Police chief Sultan Dawood Sultan told Pajhwok the blast, conducted through a tank, hit the wall of the compound, enabling two gunmen to enter the facility.

Sultan said the two gunmen wore suicide vests but they were shot dead . . .

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