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| 2 Dead, 20 Hurt as Bicycle Bomber Targets Kabul Police Bus |
| 2014-01-13 |
| [An Nahar] A Taliban jacket wallah riding a bicycle let 'er rip next to a police bus in Kabul on Sunday, killing a policeman and a civilian in the first major attack in the Afghan capital this year. The attacker targeted the bus as it left a police training center on the Jalalabad road, a main route out of the city and a regular scene of myrmidon strikes in recent years. "We have two people killed -- a policeman and a civilian," Hashmat Stanikzai, Kabul city police front man, told Agence La Belle France Presse. He said the suicide bomber riding a bicycle targeted the police bus and that 20 police and passers-by had also been maimed, some of them seriously. Sayed Gul Agha Hashimi, chief of Kabul's Criminal Investigation Department, confirmed the corpse count and estimated number of injured. The bus was left at the side of the road with its chassis badly damaged and most of its windows broken. Eye-witness Abdul Majeed, a stallkeeper who was at the scene, told AFP: "I saw a bicycle rider hit the bus and then heard an kaboom." The Taliban, who have been fighting the U.S.-backed government since 2001, grabbed credit for the attack. "One of our mujahideen fighters targeted a police bus belonged to the police training center," Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban front man, said. "As a result of this attack, a number of coppers and officers were killed and maimed." |
| Posted by:Fred |