Friday, April 15, 2011

Three Afghan policemen killed, injured in suicide bombings

Three policemen were killed and several policemen and civilians wounded in a series of suicide attacks, partly aborted, Thursday morning, in several provinces of Afghanistan. The deadliest attack was carried out by three suicide bombers who targeted a training center for local police in Afghanistan (ALP) in Paktia province, south-eastern Afghanistan, killing three policemen and wounding two .

"Around 7 pm 30 this (Thursday) morning, three suicide bombers attacked the center of training of local police in the district of Aryoob Zazai" said a spokesman for the provincial governor, Rohullah Samoon, saying: They were armed with assault rifles. "One of the assailants managed to trigger his explosives belt, the second was shot before they could explode and the third fled, the police are looking for," he added.

The wounded are an agent of the Afghan National Police (ANP) and two members of the ALP, the body of village militias responsible for providing security in remote rural areas. Paktia province is a stronghold of the Haqqani network, one of the leading networks of the Taliban insurgency. Also implemented across the Pakistani border, the Haqqani network is involved in many bloody attacks, including suicide, against Afghan and foreign forces in Afghanistan.

A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack Paktya and one that has always been four wounded Thursday morning in Kabul province, when a suicide bomber detonated his car bomb in front of an official building. The bomber, who wanted to enter the complex housing the offices of the governor's Musayi district, about twenty kilometers from the capital, detonated his explosives when police officers forced him to stop, "said a spokesman police, Hashmat Stanikzai.

"Three policemen and a bystander were wounded in the blast," he added. In addition, three Afghan civilians were injured in the southern Afghan city, Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban, when a suicide bomber has driven his explosives belt near a U.S. military convoy. "A suicide bomber tried to approach a U.S.

convoy, but was found and detonated his explosives. Two women and one man, all civilians, were injured, nobody was killed," said police chief of Kandahar, Khan Mohammad Mujahid. On Wednesday, at least ten people including five children, were killed in a suicide bombing at a gathering of tribal leaders in the volatile eastern province of Kunar.

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