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A huge car bomb at a hospital Saturday killed 60 in Afghanistan's worst attack for three years.

25 June,2011 05:04 pm

The attack comes days after US President Barack Obama said 10,000 US forces would leave the country this year.The brazen suicide attack in Logar province, about 75 kilometres south of the capital Kabul, killed women and children and also wounded 120.As an eyewitness described horrific scenes of victims on fire following the blast in the usually safe Azra district, officials described the attack as unprecedented in the near-decade-long Afghan war.Din Mohammad Darwaish, the Logar provincial spokesman, said the blast -- which took place close to Afghanistans border with Pakistan -- was a suicide car bombing.The Taliban denied it was behind the attack, which completely destroyed the building.