Twin suicide bombings kill 2 policemen, wound 29 in Afghanistan

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(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-09-07 20:28

KABUL -- Two suicide bombings targeted at the police headquarters in southern Afghan province of Kandahar Sunday afternoon killed two policemen and wounded 29 others, officials said.

Matiwullah Khan, the provincial police chief told Xinhua that 29 people including five civilians were wounded in the twin blasts and that the two dead were policemen.

Earlier, a police officer at the site of the incident told media on condition of anonymity that at least six policemen were injured in the blasts.

"So far we can confirm that six policemen including General Abdul Raziq, the Commander of Border Police Force in southern region were injured in the double blasts," the officer stressed.

The first explosion, according to the officer, occurred at around 2 p.m. (GMT 0930) inside the compound while the second blast in a span of few minutes shocked the compound and damaged it.

Meanwhile, Afghan police and Canadian troops based in Kandahar cordoned off the area and began investigation.

Moreover, a doctor in Kandahar city Mohammad Hashim told Xinhua that so far a few dead bodies and 19 injured men had been taken to the Mirwais Hospital.

But he failed to give the exact number of the dead bodies shifted to the hospital.

No group or individuals have claimed responsibility for the bloody double attacks.

Taliban outfits, whose loyalists raided the Kandahar jail in June 2008 and secured the release of more than 1,000 inmates including some 400 insurgents, often carried out such attacks against government interests despite some 70,000 international troops deployed in Afghanistan.

Conflicts and spiraling insurgency have claimed the lives of more than 3,700 people, mostly militants, so far this year in the war-torn nation.