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| Afghan candidate Abdullah Abdullah survives Kabul bombs | Afghan candidate Abdullah Abdullah survives Kabul bombs |
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| The front-runner in Afghan's presidential election, Abdullah Abdullah, has survived a bomb attack targeted at his convoy in Kabul. | |
| Police say there were several casualties when two blasts hit the site of a rally. Mr Abdullah says some of his bodyguards were among the injured. | |
| The run-off round of the presidential election takes place next week. | |
| No group has said it carried out the attack but the Taliban have repeatedly threatened to target the poll campaign. | No group has said it carried out the attack but the Taliban have repeatedly threatened to target the poll campaign. |
| The first blast was detonated by a suicide bomber in a car, a Kabul police spokesman told the BBC's Bilal Sarwary. | |
| The spokesman said the second explosion was probably caused by what he described as a "sticky bomb". | |
| Pictures from the scene show a plume of smoke rising into the air. | |
| Mr Abdullah later told another election rally: "A few minutes ago, when we left a campaign rally our convoy was hit by a mine." | |
| His opponent in the run-off, Ashraf Ghani, voiced his condemnation of the attack on Twitter. | |
| The run-off is set to take place on 14 June after neither candidate managed to secure more than 50% of the vote needed for an outright victory after the first round of voting in April. |