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Article: U.N. : Majority killed in blast were hit by guards firing into crowd.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
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- November 18, 2007
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Byline: ALISA TANG,
By Alisa Tang, Jason Straziuso
and Fisnik Abrashi
The Associated Press
BAGHLANI-JADID, Afghanistan
Up to two-thirds of the 77 people killed and 100 wounded in a suicide bombing recently were hit by bullets from visiting lawmakers' panicked bodyguards, who fired on a crowd of mostly schoolchildren for up to five minutes, a preliminary U.N. report says.
Afghanistan's Interior Ministry says only a "small number" of the victims were hit by gunfire, but an Afghan official in Baghlan province said bodyguards were "raining bullets" on the crowd.