A suicide rebel today his car bomb exploded near a market in the town of Urgun in the Afghan province of Paktika, killing 89 people and injuring 42 others who were buying food for Ramadan, AFP reported.
This suicide bombing is one of the most serious since the beginning of this year, when the conflict between Afghan forces and Taliban increased its intensity.
However, the Taliban denied any involvement in the blast, said the United Nations (UN).
Assistance Mission to the United Nations in Afghanistan (UNAMA, for its acronym in English), revealed last week that the first six months of this year were the most terrible for Afghan civilians, especially children and women.
According to the Mid-Year Report 2014, Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, Afghanistan, between 1 January and 30 June 4000 UNAMA documented 853 civilian casualties, including 564 thousand died.
These figures represent an increase of 17% and 24%, respectively, compared with the same period last year, the report added.
The victims, mostly injured or killed during the ground battles were fought between the military and Taliban.
The explosive devices are the second leading cause of damage to civilians, says the report, while suicide bombings claimed the lives of 156 civilians during the first half of 2014.
According to UNAMA, anti-government forces caused 74% of civilian casualties, against 9% by the Afghan army.
In 12% of cases impossible to attribute responsibility, while 4% of the other victims killed or injured due to explosives stuck in the ground, a legacy of a war that is bleeding the country for 12 years.
Even today, in Kabul, suspected Taliban detonated a remote-controlled bomb, while passing a bus with government workers. The fact killed two members of the communication team of the president.
electoral process
Afghanistan is facing a civil war and serious ethnic divisions among Pashtuns (between 39 and 42% of the population), Tajiks (33-38%), Hazaras (8-10%), Uzbeks (6-9%), Aímakos (4%) and Turkomans (2-3%).
In addition, candidates for the presidential elections to be held the last April 5 and June 14, under the patronage-American, fighting three of the eight million votes, a situation that shakes over the country.
The Pashtun Ashraf Ghani, execonomista at the World Bank, led the elections to be credited 56% of the vote last July 7. But his political rival, Abdullah Abdullah, a Tajik-Pashtun father denounced electoral fraud.
Ghani said that benefited from the logistical support of the president, Hamid Karzai, in command since 2002, when the western United States-led invasion defeated the Taliban regime.
On 8 July, Abdullah Abdullah was proclaimed winner of the election with a mass shouting "death to Karzai" then reported the AFP.
The final results of the poll will be announced on 22 July. Failing to find a compromise, foreign observers fear that Afghanistan falls into a new political and even ethnic chaos, while the forces of the Treaty Organisation (NATO) will withdraw from the country by the end of this year.
"Each newsletter that was introduced at the polls will be verified," he said on Saturday Secretary of State John Kerry. The U.S. insisted: "100% of the 8 million of them." At the same time, a car bomb left eight people dead in Kandahar province.
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