Terror Attack Catalogue

Date: April 19th, 2010
Method: Explosives loaded on donkey cart
Location: Kandahar, Afghanistan
Death Toll: 3 (children)
Injury Toll: 5
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (suspected Taliban)

"The explosives were loaded onto a donkey cart under a pile of fodder and was detonated remotely," tribal leader Fazluddin Agha told AFP.
"Three children were all my nephews... They were playing with the donkey cart, they had jumped on it (when it blew up outside his heavily-guarded home)."
Agha ran President Hamid Karzai's campaign during last year's presidential elections.
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The use of animals in insurgent attacks is rare but not unheard of.
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Taliban-led insurgents regularly deploy crude bombs to attack government, military and civilian targets in their insurgency, now well into its ninth year.

Kandahar is seen as the key battleground to reverse the escalating conflict, which is taking an increasing toll on foreign forces and Afghan civilians alike.