.- Gen. Mohammad Daud, a police commander for northern Afghanistan, was killed Saturday in a suicide bombing at the headquarters of the provincial governor of Takhar in northern Afghanistan, officials said. Daud, who was attending a meeting with other officials, is one of the six people killed in the attack claimed by the Taliban.
In the explosion 10 people were also wounded, including the provincial governor Abdul Jabar Taqwa, as reported by the BBC. An intelligence official who survived the attack told the BBC Taloqan that General Daud had left a meeting and went to the second floor when there was a big explosion.
"There was screaming and crying. There was chaos everywhere," he said. Daud, chief of police of Takhar province, was in charge of all the Interior Ministry forces in northern Afghanistan and is the most important figure who has been killed so far in the "spring offensive" launched by the Taliban.
Daud was interior minister in charge of combating drug trafficking and served as a bodyguard of Ahmad Shah Massoud, commander of the Northern Alliance. This attack adds to other actions that have been registered against the police and military targets, but the first involving an area north of the country that was considered safe.
Tensions in Takhar increased in May after a night attack of the Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Taloqan, which killed four people. A spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed that the German General Markus Kneip, head of NATO forces in the region, was in the complex at the time of the attack, but received wounds. 
In the explosion 10 people were also wounded, including the provincial governor Abdul Jabar Taqwa, as reported by the BBC. An intelligence official who survived the attack told the BBC Taloqan that General Daud had left a meeting and went to the second floor when there was a big explosion.
"There was screaming and crying. There was chaos everywhere," he said. Daud, chief of police of Takhar province, was in charge of all the Interior Ministry forces in northern Afghanistan and is the most important figure who has been killed so far in the "spring offensive" launched by the Taliban.
Daud was interior minister in charge of combating drug trafficking and served as a bodyguard of Ahmad Shah Massoud, commander of the Northern Alliance. This attack adds to other actions that have been registered against the police and military targets, but the first involving an area north of the country that was considered safe.
Tensions in Takhar increased in May after a night attack of the Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Taloqan, which killed four people. A spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed that the German General Markus Kneip, head of NATO forces in the region, was in the complex at the time of the attack, but received wounds.
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