Seven killed in Afghan suicide blast (Lead)
May 28th, 2011 - 10:06 pm ICT by IANS
Kabul, May 28 (IANS) At least seven people, including two top police officers and three German soldiers, were killed and nine others, including a provincial governor, were injured when a Taliban suicide bomber targeted the governor’s office in northern Afghanistan Saturday, Xinhua reported.
Abdul Jabbar Taqwa, governor of Takhar province, was injured in the suicide blast in Taluqan city, said Faizullah Tawhidi, spokesman for the governor.
“It was a suicide bombing in the governor’s office where a security meeting was under way at 4.30 p.m., as a result of which seven people, including police chief of northern region General Mohammad Daud Daud, provincial police chief Shah Jahan Nuri and three German soldiers with the NATO-led troops, were killed,” Tawhidi told Xinhua.
Eight other people were injured, he said.
A Taliban spokesman named Zabihullah Mujahid speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up inside the governor’s office.
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