Aftermath of a Suicide Bombing: Elections in Afghanistan (Dispatch 4)
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June 21, 2014
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While polling day passed smoothly in Kabul, the Taliban are still keen to show their power to strike within the capital.
Early Saturday morning, a suicide bomber struck the convoy of Masoom Stanikzai, head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council, responsible for peace negotiations with the Taliban. While Stanikzai survived, the attacker and a bystander outside Kabul's Dawat University were killed, and three injured.
VICE News was the only news crew allowed through the police line to witness the aftermath.
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