KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber aiming for a pro-government militia commander detonated his bomb-laden vest in the provincial capital of Gardez on Thursday, and witnesses said he killed 10 people and wounded 27, most of them civilians. Also on Thursday, the governor of a neighboring province survived a bomb attack.
In Gardez, capital of Paktia province, witnesses said the suicide bomber walked up to Nasir Paray, the commander of one of the many pro-government armed groups in the area, and detonated his vest up. Among the dead were four children.
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