Saturday, January 18, 2014

Kabul victim was living in Limavady

Kabul bomb blast: British man killed was living in Limavady

Afghan security forces at site of explosion in Kabul on 17 January 2014 Security forces were reportedly quickly on the scene and sealed off the area

It is understood that one of the two Britons killed in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan on Friday night had been living in Limavady.

Simon Chase was originally from Liverpool, but had been recently living in the County Londonderry town with his partner.

Twenty-one people in total were killed in the gun and bomb attack at the restaurant in the capital Kabul.

A senior IMF official and four UN employees were among those who died.

A suicide attacker detonated his explosives outside the gate of the heavily fortified restaurant before two gunmen entered the restaurant and started "indiscriminately killing" people inside.

The Taliban said they carried out the attack late on Friday.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon described it as a "horrific attack".


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