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Two guards killed in Afghan bank attack
KABUL : Two security guards were killed Sunday in a bomb blast targeting an Afghan bank where government employees were
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The blast happened after explosives were left in a bag at the gates of a branch of a bank in Maydan Shahr city, capital of Wardak province in central Afghanistan.
"It exploded at around 11:50am (0740 GMT) resulting in the martyrdom of two bank security guards," the interior ministry said in a statement.
It is thought that the intended target was government employees who were collecting their salaries from the bank.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011