Monday, February 21, 2011

Afghanistan: Many dead in suicide attack near Kunduz

The terrorist struck outside a government building north of the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, in the operations area of the Bundeswehr, has a suicide bomber blew up. At least 20 people were killed according to official figures, injured dozens. Kunduz - A suicide attack in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz are dozens of people were killed and injured.

The attack occurred in Imam Saheb north of the provincial capital of Kunduz, where the army runs a camp with about 1,400 soldiers. The local authorities, the suicide bomber blew at 12.25 local time clock in front of the card department of the administration building in the air. Mohammed Ayob, the district chief of Imam Saheb told Daily Buzz World, had been 26 dead and 26 wounded were counted.


"All the victims are civilians," added the local politicians. Ayob is expected that the number of deaths will increase. "Many of the injured are in a very critical condition," he said shortly after the attack. In agency reports of at least 28 deaths and 50 injuries of the question. The authorities of the district police headquarters building and an office of the regional government are housed.

Before the complex had been dozens of Afghans lined up to collect their identity documents. Eyewitnesses reported the attack, the attackers had initially done with the other people waiting in front of the ID office. When he reached the door of the building, he detonated his explosives. The reports reflect a real bloodbath.

were lying around everywhere outside the building body parts, telling witnesses. Even on many seriously injured succumbed Anschlagsort their wounds. The Taliban are planning a new offensive? The Imam Saheb region is despite the increased operations of German and American units continue to be a stronghold of the Taliban.

After the international units were recovered, together with Afghan forces in recent months, several regions around Kunduz, the Taliban apparently moved back north of the province. The Taliban, some hours after the massacre in Imam Saheb on the attack. In a telephone conversation with Daily Buzz World Sabihullah Mujahid claimed the spokesman, the attack had been considered a recruiting office of the Afghan police in the government building.

"The people from the office wanted to apply as a policeman, so we attacked them," said Mujahid Sahibullah. The spokesman expressed the regular activities of the Taliban, spoke of three dead and many wounded by the attack. He denied that civilians had been killed in the attack. The details of the speaker to serve the propaganda of the Taliban, and in many cases been distorted.

For the insurgents, the Afghan police is an avowed enemy, the Taliban repeatedly perpetrate attacks against local security forces. The local security authorities are concerned that might be a kind of serious attack launched new violence in northern Afghanistan. From experience, the authorities know that the Taliban use the winter months to equip the new and to train suicide bombers.

Also, the Bundeswehr, which can be seen in Imam Saheb rarely feared that such a spring offensive. First on Saturday was a suicide mission by the Taliban in the city of Jalalabad in the east of the country attacked a bank and killed at least 38 people, including more than 20 members of the Afghan security forces.

On Friday, an Afghan soldier was shot dead in an outpost in northern Afghanistan three army soldiers. 

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