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Recent major attacks in Afghanistan's capital
- Oct. 28: Gunmen with automatic weapons and suicide vests storm a Kabul guest house, killing 12 people, including six U.N. staff. Two rockets target the luxury Serena Hotel and one strikes close to the presidential palace, with no casualties. - Oct. 8: A suicide car bomber detonates his vehicle outside the Indian Embassy, killing 17 people, mostly civilians, and wounding at least 76. - Sept. 17: A suicide car bomber kills six Italian soldiers and 10 Afghan civilians on one of Kabul's main roads. - Aug. 15: A suicide car bomber strikes near the front gate of NATO's headquarters, killing at least seven people and wounding nearly 100. - July 7, 2008: A suicide car bomb detonates at the gates of the Indian Embassy, killing more than 60 people and wounding around 150. - April 27, 2008: Militants firing rockets and automatic rifles attack a ceremony marking Afghanistan's victory over Soviet occupation in the 1980s, killing three and wounding eight. Three gunmen are also killed. - Jan. 15, 2008: Militants storm the Serena Hotel in a coordinated assault that kills seven. 2009-10-28 08:09:34 GMT
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