Afghan company: Militants kill at least 35 workers
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Insurgents firing heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles killed at least 35 workers and guards in an attack on a road construction site in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan, the owner of the company and local officials said Thursday.
More than 100 fighters carried out the attack in Wazei Zadran in a mountainous region of Paktia province near neighboring Pakistan's lawless tribal areas, said Galaxy Sky construction company owner Noorullah Bidar. He described the assailants as Taliban fighters, though there was no immediate of responsibility for the attack late Wednesday. (Reuters)
