Monday, March 14, 2011

A suicide attack in the north from Afghanistan kills 37 people

At least 37 people have died and over 40 wounded in a suicide attack recorded in a military recruitment center in the Afghan city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, according to the agency. The attack has been reinvidicado by tabilanes and was the third to be produced in the area in less than a month, she says Hamdullah Danishi, deputy governor of the region,.

After the attack was heard heavy gunfire in the area, according to a witness account, but officials say all the victims were directly caused by the explosion of the bomb. At the local hospital have reached 33 bodies, including three of them in uniform, while the rest were civilians waiting to be recruited, and two children who were dedicated to shining shoes in the area, she says the health center director Humayoun Khamosh.

Afghan officials are racing to join the ranks of indigenous security forces, which are a common target of insurgent attacks in the Central Asian country. U.S. and NATO to begin next July to gradually transfer responsibility for security to Afghan army and police, who must fully assume this responsibility, if it meets the deadline, in 2014.

In this transitional stage, the region is experiencing a wave of violence. The police chief of Kuduz was killed last week because of a suicide bombing and at least 30 people died in February as an attempted attack against a group of people queuing to collect their identity cards in the district of Emam Saheb, also in the region of Kunduz.

Also, former provincial governor was assassinated last October because of a attack on a mosque.

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