At least 11 dead in Afghan bus blast a day after dozens died in a bombing at a girls' school
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At least 11 people were killed and dozens injured when a bus hit a roadside mine in the restive Zabul province in southern Afghanistan late Sunday night, the Interior Ministry said. The deadly blast was the second in as many days in Afghanistan -- a horrific bombing at a girls' school outside the capital of Kabul on Saturday killed dozens, most of them students between 11 and 15 years old, and wounded roughly 100.
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