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Afghan airport blast: VP Gen Dostum unhurt as Kabul bomb kills 11 [View all]
Source: BBC
A suicide bomb blast has rocked Kabul airport shortly after Afghan Vice-President Abdul Rashid Dostum returned from self-imposed exile.
The interior ministry said 11 people were killed in a square that Gen Dostum had just passed through. He was unhurt.
The ethnic Uzbek and former warlord was cheered by supporters on arrival.
He left for Turkey more than a year ago, accused of ordering his men to kidnap and rape a political rival, accusations he denies.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44917583
Nightmare of a place, still.
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