News - Baghlan Province
Up to two-thirds of the 77 people killed and 100 wounded in a suicide bombing last week were hit by bullets from visiting lawmakers' panicked bodyguards, who fired on a crowd of mostly schoolchildren for up to five minutes, a preliminary U.N. report says.
Under tight security, thousands of people gathered in Kabul on Thursday for the funeral of lawmakers who died in the country's deadliest-ever suicide attack, a strike that killed some 73 people, many of them schoolchildren.
Text of report in English by Afghan independent Pajhwok news agency website Pol-e Khomri, 27 November: Workers of the coal mines in northern Baghlan Province went on strike on Sunday as the government failed to keep its promise made to them about the distribution of land plots.