Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Terror in Kabul: "Extremists attack shopping mall

Attack in Kabul: extremists have attacked a shopping center of the Afghan capital. At the entrance of the Kabul City Centre "a suicide bomber ignited an explosive device, several people were reportedly killed. Kabul - A shopping center in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday has become the target of a terrorist attack.

Unknown had opened in the Kabul City Centre 'the fire, said the chief investigator of the Kabul criminal investigation, Said Mohammed Zahir. Eye witnesses said, before the entrance of the shopping center in the downtown district Shar-i-Nau it had come also to a serious explosion. Sahir said, emergency personnel investigated whether more attackers were in the nine-story building.


Helicopters circled over the area. The police sealed off roads to Shar-i-Nau. The data on the number of possible casualties vary. The news agency is based on three guards dead, killed two security men. The German Press Agency () reported by two guards dead and two more deaths that came with the detonation killed.

Based on information from the Interior Ministry. Ministry spokesman Baschari Samarai said the bomber tried to enter the "Kabul City Centre. He had ignited his explosive vest, as an employee of a private security service at the entrance opened fire on him. The "Kabul City Centre 'was when it opened in 2005, the first shopping center in Afghanistan.

The security measures are relatively lax. In the top of the nine floors of the building is a hotel. In a last serious attack in Kabul, a suicide bomber had late last month in a supermarket in the diplomatic area at least nine people, killing, including women and children. To the fact there are two radical Islamic groups had known.

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