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Afghanistan
Seven dead in attack on Afghan police building
2012-02-06
[Dawn] Seven people were killed Sunday in a suicide car kaboom on police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a bastion of Taliban militancy, the interior ministry said.

Three coppers and four civilians died in the blast in the car park, the ministry said in a statement, while nine other people were maimed.

"At around noon today (0730 GMT), a suicide car boomer detonated his explosive-packed car in district one of Kandahar that killed seven, including three police and four civilians and maimed nine others", the ministry statement said.

Kandahar governor Tooryalai Weesa also said there were seven deaths, but said five of those were police and gave a maimed toll of 19, including 13 women and kiddies.

Blood-splattered items from nearby market stalls lay scattered on the ground after the attack, which destroyed four police cars and damaged nearby buildings, according to an AFP correspondent.
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