A boomer in a mobile car bomb slammed into a police station in Tajikistan on Friday, killing a senior police official and wounding at least 25 others, interior ministry officials said.The car crashed into an iron gate in front of a regional police headquarters in the northern scenic city of Khujand at high speed and went kaboom, killing the driver and partially demolishing the building. A number of officers were missing, feared dead in the rubble.
The massive blast shattered windows for blocks around the station, said witnesses. "As a result of the kaboom this morning in Khujand, a senior officer in the Tajik police was killed," interior ministry front man Colonel Mukhammadjon Nazriyev told AFP.
"The building was severely damaged as a result of the powerful kaboom, and 25 police officers were taken to hospital with varying degrees of injuries," he said. Nazriyev blamed the bombing on al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.