[REUTERS] Four suicide kaboomers on Tuesday stormed a provincial police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan, killing 22 police, an official said. Taliban forces of Evil immediately grabbed credit.
The attack in Pashtun-infested Logar province outside the capital, Kabul, was the latest to target Afghan cops following the withdrawal of most foreign combat troops at the end of last year.
In neighbouring Pakistain, another Taliban suicide attack on a provincial police headquarters killed at least seven people in the eastern city of Lahore, in what turbans called a Dire Revenge bid for the recent hangings of their colleagues.
The Afghan and Pak Taliban are separate groups that share the goal of establishing hard-line Islamic rule.
In the Afghan assault, the four attackers rushed the gates of the police compound in early afternoon, with one detonating his explosives-filled vest at the main gate and killing one policeman, Pashtun-infested Logar government front man Din Mohammad Darwish said.
The attack triggered a 25-minute battle with police, he said.
Another of the turbans reached the station's dining hall, killing 21 police and wounding seven when he detonated his vest, said Abdul Wali Toofan, Pashtun-infested Logar's deputy police chief. The other two attackers were killed with no further casualties.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a front man for the Taliban, grabbed credit on his official Twitter feed. 
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