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Eight mining workers killed in Afghan bomb blast

Ana Komnenic | September 01, 2013 | 4:01 pm Asia Europe 

A bomb blast in Afghanistan has killed eight mining workers, the Associated Press reports.  The roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying employees of a private chromite mining company in the country's Parwan province. Abdul Basir Salangi, Parwan province leader, told...

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