Sun Nov 26, 2:41 AM
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber attacked a restaurant in southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, leaving seven Afghans dead and 20 injured, the provincial governor said.
The restaurant, located in Paktika province, was completely destroyed, said provincial governor Mohammad Akram Akhpelwak.
Akhpelwak told The Associated Press that the attacker was believed to be targeting an Afghan special forces commander and a district chief who were at the restaurant Sunday morning and were among the injured.
Paktika, which borders Pakistan, has been plagued by Taliban violence.
NATO said that as of mid-November, 97 suicide attacks this year in Afghanistan have killed 217 people.
Paktika province in Afganistan
A suicide bomber has killed at least seven people in an attack on a restaurant situated in south-eastern Afghanistan. Twenty people are seriously injured in the attack.

The attack took place in the Urgun district of Paktika province, which shares its border with that of Pakistan.

Governor Mohammed Akram Akhpelwak said that most of those killed are civilians. He added that intention of the attack could have been to target a senior provincial official and an Afghan special forces commander.