Deadly violence rocks Afghanistan as campaign season ends

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An Afghan journalist wounded by a roadside bomb as he headed home from work has died, officials said Wednesday, as candidates standing in this ...

KANDAHAR: Candidates in Afghanistan's presidential election pushed their messages for the last time Wednesday as campaigning for weekend polls wrapped up amid deadly violence.

Eighteen names appear on the ballot but the only other candidate thought to have a chance is Ghani's main rival, Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan's"chief executive" who was awarded the role after 2014's bitter election.Advertisement Bloody attacks have rocked Afghanistan on a near daily basis, including a Taliban bombing at a Ghani rally last week that killed at least 26 people in the central province of Parwan near Kabul.

Three other people - including a child - died, Afghanistan's interior ministry said, blaming the Taliban for the bombing.

 

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