National mourning after bomb attack
Updated on 06 November 2007
Afghan president Hamid Karzai declared three days of mourning for victims of a suicide blast targeting a group of lawmakers and children, as the death toll rose to 41, making it the deadliest attack in the country since the 2001 US-led invasion.
Hundreds of mourners gathered at a mosque near the site of the bombing in the town of New Baghlan, 95 miles north of Kabul, before moving to a simple hill-top graveyard to bury the dead.
"My son was supposed to finish school this year, but yesterday I had to peel off his blood-soaked clothes, and today I buried him," said an elderly man who broke down in tears at one grave site. He didn't give his name.
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