Afghan attack on Indian consulate kills 9
Vehicle explodes as it approaches checkpoint
The Associated Press
Posted: Aug 3, 2013
Three suicide attackers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in an attack Saturday on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan, security officials said.
Authorities also reported that 22 police officers and over 70 Taliban fighters died in two days of fighting earlier in the week in the same province touched off by a feud between militants and villagers. Officials regularly announce high militant death tolls that are impossible to independently confirm.