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Chris Hughes

Top Taliban cleric killed in suicide bombing by man with explosives hidden in fake leg

A top Taliban cleric has been killed in a suicide bombing by a one-legged man who had explosives hidden in his artificial leg, it has been claimed.

Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, who supported female education, died in the Kabu l blast which happened in his seminary in the Afghanistan capital.

It happened as Kabul is still reeling from the drone killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri recently and that he had been living in plain sight in the capital.

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