Taliban cleric Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani killed in suicide blast in Kabul
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Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, one of the prominent Taliban clerics, was killed in an explosion at a school in a district of the Afghanistan capital, Kabul, on Thursday.
Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, one of the prominent Taliban clerics, was killed in an explosion at a school in a district of the Afghan capital on Thursday.
Bilal Karimi, the deputy spokesman of the Islamic Emirate, confirmed his death, as reported by TOLO news.
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A tweet by TOLO news read, "Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, one of the religious scholars, was killed in an explosion in his school. Bilal Karimi, the deputy spokesman of the Islamic Emirate, has confirmed the death of Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani. It is said that this religious scholar was killed in an explosion in his school in Kabul."
The attack had taken place in a religious seminary in the Afghan capital when a man who had previously lost his leg had detonated explosives hidden in a plastic artificial leg.
