nytimes.com - KABUL, Afghanistan — An explosion during a political protest in southeastern Afghanistan killed at least 16 people on Thursday and left many others wounded, including a member of Parliament, according to the authorities.
The blast, which was believed to have been the work of a suicide bomber, occurred around 10 a.m. in front of the provincial governor’s compound in the city of Khost, where a crowd of several hundred had gathered in recent days demanding the governor’s removal.
The wounded lawmaker, who had joined the protest, was Humayun Humayun, head of the Defense Committee in the lower house of Parliament, according to the governor’s spokesman, Mubariz Mohammad Zadran.
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