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/ 6 November 2007
A suicide attack on a parliamentary delegation killed at least 50 people in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a provincial official said, in the worst such blast in the country’s history. Five members of the Afghan Parliament were among the dead and the toll was expected to rise among the delegates and schoolchildren who were among the victims.
The truth behind horrific reports of bloodletting and mass graves in northern Afghanistan will be buried alongside the victims unless investigations begin straight away, local officials say.