Afghan Bombing Kills Dozens of Workers Lined Up for Pay

Afghan Bombing Kills Dozens of Workers Lined Up for Pay
By TAIMOOR SHAH and ROD NORDLANDJUNE 22, 2017
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A Taliban car bombing killed at least 34 people
and wounded 60 others as they lined up at a bank to collect their pay on Thursday in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province, in southern Afghanistan, according to Afghan officials.
" Mr. Hayat said. that Most of the victims were civilians,
but some were military, and we are investigating why military men came to a bank in the city, since they should collect their pay from bank branches on their bases,
The attacker drove into a crowd in front of a branch of the New Kabul Bank in the city, detonating a car bomb so potent
that some victims were blown into the nearby Helmand River, officials said.
The governor of Helmand, Hayatullah Hayat, said that civilians and soldiers were among the dead and wounded, including children.
He said civilians had been barred from the bank at the time of the attack,
but he did not address the reports of women and children being among the victims.