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Afghan election workers among 11 killed by roadside bomb


    MAZAR-I-SHARIF Afghanistan (Reuters) - Eleven people, including election workers, were killed in Afghanistan when a roadside bomb blew up their bus, the governor of the northern province of Samangan said on Sunday.

    The blast came on Saturday evening, after polls closed in a second-round, run-off vote to elect a successor to President Hamid Karzai, in what is hoped will mark the country's first democratic transfer of power.

    (Reporting by Bashir Ansari and Mirwais Harooni; Writing by Jessica Donati; Editing by Robert Birsel)