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Roadside bomb attack misses Afghan Vice President, but kills four

9th-September-2020

KABUL: A roadside bomb in Kabul targeted First Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Wednesday morning, but he escaped unharmed, his spokesman after the attack which killed and wounded at least 20 people, including some of his bodyguards.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which comes just ahead of long awaited peace talks between the Afghan Government and the Taliban in Qatar's capital of Doha.

"Today, once again the enemy of Afghanistan tried to harm Saleh, but they failed in their evil aim and Saleh escaped the attack unharmed," Razwan Murad, a spokesman for Saleh's office, wrote on Facebook.