At least 21 people killed in twin Taliban attacks near Afghan parliament
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The attack targeted a minibus carrying staff from the NDS, Afghanistan's main intelligence agency, the insurgents said.
The attack, which ended a period of relative calm in the Afghan capital, occurred in a crowded area during the afternoon rush hour as workers were returning home.
Officials said a suicide bomber blew himself up in the Darul Aman area of the city near the new Indian-financed parliament building and was followed immediately by a car bomber in an apparently coordinated operation.
Earlier on Tuesday, a suicide bomber killed seven people and wounded nine when he detonated his explosives in a house in the southern province of Helmand used by an NDS unit.
(Reporting by Hamid Shalizi; Editing by James Mackenzie and Nick Macfie)
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