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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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FACTBOX: Security developments in Afghanistan, Oct 30

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Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:11pm EDT

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 3 a.m. EDT on Friday.

* denotes new or updated items.

* NANGARHAR - A roadside bomb killed eight Afghan civilians

in the Khogiani district of eastern Nangarhar province, the Interior Ministry said.

GHAZNI - Afghan police and NATO-led forces killed about 26 insurgents in a counter-attack in the Giro district of eastern Ghazni province on Thursday, the Interior Ministry said.

KANDAHAR - A roadside bomb killed four civilians, including a woman and a child, and wounded two in the Khakriz district of southern Kandahar province on Thursday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

* PAKTIA - Afghan and NATO-led foreign forces detained a group of suspected insurgents in southeastern Paktia province, the International Security Assistance Force said in a statement.

(Editing by Paul Tait)
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