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At least 11 killed in explosions at Afghanistan cricket stadium

By Jasvinder Singh November 30, -0001 • 00:00 AM View: 2510

Kabul, May 19 (CRICKETNMORE) - At least eight people have been killed and 45 others wounded in three back-to-back explosions during a cricket match at a sports stadium in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, officials said.

The blasts occurred around Friday midnight at Jalalabad's Spinghar cricket stadium where hundreds of people had gone to watch a match between local teams, the provincial governor's spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, told Tolo News.

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