Sunday, December 12, 2010

Violence rocks Afghanistan

KANDAHAR Afghanistan - a car bomb exploded outside a police headquarters in South Afghanistan on Saturday, wounding at least six people and blowing up to a mile away from the Windows of buildings, officials said.

Two civilians and four police officers were wounded Zalmaï Ayubi, a spokesman said the Governor of Kandahar province. Police cordoned the area around Kandahar's police building.

NATO forces have poured troops in the southern province of Kandahar and Helmand, some progress in the routing of the Taliban. But fight and attacks continued insurgency.

Azar said Jan was a policeman standing guard across the street from the police headquarters, he car parked on the street noticed an empty, silver in the moments before the explosion.

"Turn around when I was, the explosion happened," said Jan his bleeding head wrapped in a Federation. "

Collected in the eastern part of Paktia province, around 500 people and cried: "death the Americans!" in the midst of local reports that a NATO operation seven members of a private security company killed early Saturday morning. "

NATO said the shooting, examines the was occurred after coalition forces detained a suspected insurgents and tries to delete the field. NATO forces then shot a man who approached you armed with an assault rifle.

NATO "Several other armed individuals committed then the power that killed resulted in a total of seven people," said in a statement. "The colonial army civilian victims seriously allegations and is currently access to, the individuals who were, why they were armed and why in this area were at the time of the morning. "

Also, Afghan officials on Saturday said a bomb on the road, the Taliban 15 civilians in a remote region of Helmand planted killed.

The attack Friday afternoon as a pickup truck carrying out villagers into a nearby Bazaar rolled the bomb in the Khan Neshin district of Helmand province, detonating happen Daoud Ahmadi, spokesman for the provincial Governor said.

"It was a very heavy blast, the vehicle was destroyed," the associated press Mr. Ahmadi said by phone from Lashkar Gah, Helmand province. " Mr Ahmadi said all victims were men.

In northern Afghanistan a suicide bomber exploded a stolen police car that violate with explosives, five Afghan soldiers and nine civilians close Saturday was been packed an army checkpoint.

Muhbobullah Sayedi spokesman said the Governor of Kunduz, the force of the explosion destroyed several nearby houses. The only person who was killed the suicide bomber.

Were several civilians at the time of the explosion in their homes, said Mr Sayedi.

The attack occurred in the district Chahar Dara unbeständigsten district in the northern region.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in a text message sent to the media.


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