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2007-07-19 Afghanistan
Boomer in cop uniform explodes at Khost cop shoppe
Insurgent attacks in Afghanistan killed at least nine police officials and two road workers on Wednesday. Also a suicide bomber targeting NATO forces injured a civilian in the capital, police said.

A suicide bomber in police uniform blew himself up at a provincial police headquarters in southeastern Afghanistan, killing three people and injuring eight others, police said. The incident involved two attackers, disguised as police officers, who approached the gates of the main police office in Khost, the capital of the province of the same name, and one of them opened fire at police guards.

Officers returned fire, killing one attacker, and the second blew himself up, a policeman at the scene said. “We have received three killed and eight injured at our hospital from the suicide blast today,” provincial health director Gul Mohammaddin Mohammadi told AFP, saying two of the dead were police and one was a civilian.

A suicide attack against Turkish NATO soldiers injured a civilian passer-by in the Afghan capital but caused no casualties among the foreign troops, police said. The attacker blew himself up as he approached an ISAF convoy, deputy Kabul police chief General Zalmai Oriakhail said.

Separately, a police convoy on the Kandahar-Kabul road was hit by gunfire and rocket propelled grenades from an unknown number of insurgents in the Shahr-e-Safa district of southern Zabul province, the provincial police chief said. “Six police were martyred in the ambush,” General Mohammad Yaqub told AFP.

The ninth policeman was killed overnight when insurgents attacked in Doaab district of eastern Nuristan province, governor Tamim Nuristani said, denying Taliban claims that the rebels had captured the Doaab and Mandol districts. Taliban rebels also attacked a private road construction company on Wednesday in the Showak district of southeastern Paktia province, killing an Afghan and a Philippines national and injuring four others, police said.
Posted by Fred 2007-07-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
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