Afghan Bombing Kills Dozens of Workers Lined Up for Pay<br />By TAIMOOR SHAH and ROD NORDLANDJUNE 22, 2017<br />KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A Taliban car bombing killed at least 34 people<br />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.<br />" Mr. Hayat said. that Most of the victims were civilians,<br />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,<br />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<br />that some victims were blown into the nearby Helmand River, officials said.<br />The governor of Helmand, Hayatullah Hayat, said that civilians and soldiers were among the dead and wounded, including children.<br />He said civilians had been barred from the bank at the time of the attack,<br />but he did not address the reports of women and children being among the victims.
