12 killed, 59 injured in Wardak double suicide attacks

KABUL (PAN): At least 12 people including four policemen were killed, 47 civilians and a dozen of security personnel wounded on Saturday as a result of two back-to-back suicide attacks in the central province of Maidan Wardak, officials said.

An explosives-laden van went up at 6am after a suicide bomber exploded his suicide vest on a road between police headquarters and the base of operational coordination centre in the Syedabad district of the province, the governor’s spokesman, Sahidullah Shahid, told Pajhwok Afghan News.

Eight civilians and four policemen were killed, 47 civilians, seven policemen, three National Directorate of Security (NDS) agents and two International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers wounded in the two consecutive suicide bombings, he said.

ISAF media office confirmed the incident, saying there were no ISAF fatalities in the suicide attack.

“There were a minor number of wounded,” the statement said without disclosing the identity and condition of the wounded soldiers.

A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, claimed that dozens of Afghan and foreign soldiers were killed or wounded in the suicide attacks.

from Pajhwok
by Javed Hamim Kakar on Sep 1, 2012 - 07:16

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