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At least six people, most of them children, have been killed in a suicide bombing near the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say. | At least six people, most of them children, have been killed in a suicide bombing near the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say. |
Three Italian aid workers were also wounded in the attack, which targeted a bridge they were inspecting, the Afghan interior ministry said. | |
The attack happened in the Paghman area, about 10km (six miles) north-west of Kabul. | |
It is the latest in a spate of suicide bombings by militants in Afghanistan. | |
Suicide attacks are a comparatively recent tool in the armoury of the insurgency there, but they are now far more frequent, says the BBC's David Loyn in Kabul. | |
There have been more than 130 suicide attacks in Afghanistan this year, by far the highest annual total since the Taleban were pushed from power six years ago. | |
They are mostly aimed at foreign forces, but aid projects are increasingly targeted, particularly where foreigners can be hit, our correspondent says. |