Afghan blast kills election candidate, The Irish Times (2010)
This article reports on the killing of a candidate for the September parliamentary elections in Afghanistan. The candidate, Sayedullah Sayed, was killed in a bomb attack in the Khost mosque. Election-related violence is a major issue in the country: in the 2009 presidential elections there were more than 130 attacks on polling centres and other targets.
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