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Newshour: Bomb rips through wedding in Kabul

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Bomb rips through wedding in Kabul

17/08/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - Newshour, Bomb rips through wedding in Kabul

A suicide bomb attack on a wedding in the Afghan capital has caused many casualties.

A bomb has exploded at a wedding reception in the Afghan capital, Kabul. An interior ministry spokesman has said dozens of civilians were killed. 

Also in the programme: Sudan's military and civilians leaders sign a power-sharing agreement, and an orphaned dugong, made famous after it was rescued earlier this year in Thailand, has died after eating plastic.

(Picture: An Afghan woman who has lost her husband grieves at the door of the hospital, after a suicide attacker detonated explosives at a wedding  in Kabul, Afghanistan, 18 August 2019. Credit: EPA/JAWAD JALALI)

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