Suicide attack on Afghan police post: 13 killed
Ap, afp, Kandahar
A suspected suicide bomber blew up a guard post outside police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing 13 people and wounded 11, officials said. Purported Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammed Yousaf claimed responsibility for the bombing on behalf of the hard-line militia, and threatened more attacks. Ten of the dead and five of the wounded were police who were standing guard when the assault occurred, said Mamoon Khan, a doctor at Kandahar city's Mirwaise Hospital, which was treating the injured. The rest of the victims were civilians. The interior ministry in Kabul confirmed the attack was a suicide attack, the latest in a series to rock the war-shattered nation. "A suicide bomber wanted to get into the headquarters and while police were searching for him he detonated the bomb which killed 13 people, among which seven are police and six civilians," ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanizai told AFP. A senior police officer at the site of the blast, Jan Mohammed, said the bomb destroyed a guard post outside the police headquarters. The attacker drove a "motorbike straight into the guard post and then there was an enormous explosion," he said.
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