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| UAE confirms humanitarian work officials killed in Afghan attack | |
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| Five officials from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been killed in a bomb attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, officials have confirmed. | |
| They died in blasts at the governor of Kandahar's guesthouse on Tuesday, where several others were also killed. The UAE ambassador was injured. | |
| The UAE said the men had been carrying out "humanitarian, educational and development projects". | |
| Three days of mourning have been declared in the UAE. | |
| UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed has ordered that flags across the country should be flown at half-mast in honour of its "martyred" citizens. | |
| Among the projects was signing an agreement with Kardan University, in the capital Kabul, to offer scholarships funded by the UAE. | |
| The Taliban has denied earlier reports that it was behind the deadly bombing, blaming an "internal local rivalry". | |
| The Kandahar blast was one of a string of attacks that hit three Afghan cities on Tuesday, killing some 50 people and wounding 100. | |
| In Kabul, a suicide bomber and a car bomb detonated near the Afghan parliament complex, while in Helmand province a Taliban suicide bomber targeted a guesthouse used by an intelligence official, killing at least seven people. The Taliban admitted both attacks. |