Afghan official: 14 killed in bombing at candidate rally

This article is about a candidate rally in Afghanistan. The rally was stopped abruptly because of a motorcycle rigged with explosives was detonated. It had killed 14 people, civilians and security forces as well. Up to 32 were wounded because of the explosion on top of the 14 dead. The candidate was a Nazefa Yusoufi Beg, a female candidate running for parliament. However, officials are not certain that she was the target. The most shocking thing in my opinion was that the location of the venue has not been a place where these kind of attacks have taken place before. The hospitals are overcrowded and hardly have any workers to begin with, therefore this is recipe for disaster. However, other candidates for parliament have been attacked as well. A pair of gunmen opened fire at the office of Sayed Azem Kabrzani. Before that, a suicide bomber blew up another candidate's home, killing 8 people. On October 2, another suicide bomber killed 14 and injured 40 at a different rally, too. The Taliban do not agree with the election and warned anyone that takes place in it that they will be targets for doing so. I believe that Afghanistan is at a place in time where the government is controlled by the Taliban. This is not good whatsoever. It is crazy to think that even though there is a government, per say, they have no power because the citizens are too scared to even run for the government in the elections. They would become targets and their lives would be in grave danger. I could never see this happening in the United States because of how terrorism is handled by our government. That is why I believe that this situation is one of the craziest thing I've heard of because of how the government isn't for the majority of the people. It's for a select group, and unfortunately, that group is the Taliban.

By Jake Rogers

Link below: https://www.apnews.com/ab68708412484fa58b2d9e167cbb57fd