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Afghan police chief shot dead outside home

A young Afghan girl receives medical treatment at a hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, May 17, 2013 after a car bomb exploded inside an elite gated community linked to the family of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Many people where killed and scores wounded, an official said.

Motorcycle-riding gunmen assassinated a police chief in front of his house after he led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan, an official said Saturday.

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