Blast Kills at Least 23 at Cattle Market in Southern Afghanistan

At least 23 civilians were killed in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province and dozens were wounded when rockets hit a cattle market on Monday.
Blast Kills at Least 23 at Cattle Market in Southern Afghanistan
Afghan security forces in a file photo after an attack by Taliban terrorists. Stringer/AFP via Getty Images
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KABUL—At least 23 civilians were killed in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand Province and dozens were wounded when rockets hit a cattle market on June 29, Afghan government and Taliban officials said.

The warring sides blamed each other for the attack on the open-air weekly cattle market in Sangin district, where hundreds of villagers from neighboring districts had gathered to trade sheep and goats.