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Suicide attacker kills 20 at Afghan funeral

By KHALID ALOKOZAY AND ROD NORDLAND THE NEW YORK TIME

Posted: September 5, 2012 at 5:51 a.m.

Credit: AP
An injured Afghan man is carried to a hospital after a suicide attack on a funeral in Durbaba district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has killed several civilians and wounded dozens more at a funeral for a village elder in a remote part of eastern Afghanistan. The deputy police chief for Nangarhar province, Jamil Shamal, says the attack took place on Tuesday in the village of Shagai in the Durbaba district.(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

At least 20 mourners were killed when a suicide bomber struck a funeral Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said.

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