Information About Incident 40319-77180-188803 in Karur India

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Targeting the Indian embassy in Kabul for the second time, a Taliban suicide bomber on October 8 blew up an explosives-laden car outside the mission, killing 17 persons and injuring over 80, including three Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) soldiers, The Hindu reported.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Kabul, Kabul, Kabul
• Matched District: Karur
• Actgroup: attack, kill, injure
• Actor: a Taliban suicide bomber, a Taliban suicide bomber, a Taliban suicide bomber
• Subject: an explosives - laden car outside the mission, 17 persons, over 80 , including three Indo - Tibetan Border Police ( ITBP ) soldiers

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Targeting the Indian embassy in Kabul for the second time, a Taliban suicide bomber on October 8 blew up an explosives-laden car outside the mission, killing 17 persons and injuring over 80, including three Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) soldiers, The Hindu reported. The embassy staff, however, was unhurt. The blast, which occurred near the outer perimeter of the heavily-fortified embassy around 8.30 a.m., damaged a wall and destroyed a watch tower. A suicide car bomb blast took place near the Indian embassy in which 15 civilians and two Afghan policemen were killed and 76 wounded. Most of the wounded are civilians, the Afghan Interior Ministry said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and identified the bomber as Khalid, Al Jazeera TV channel said.

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