Gunmen Kill Candidate for New Parliament
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From Times Wire Reports
Assailants shot to death a parliamentary candidate amid a spate of violence that has raised security fears ahead of Afghanistan’s Sept. 18 election.
Haji Atiqullah, who was running for a seat in the new lower house of parliament, was killed in the southern province of Oruzgan. Gov. Jan Mohammed Khan blamed the Taliban.
In other violence, assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a German peacekeeping base in Faizabad. The munition failed to explode.
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