Suicide bombing injures three German soldiers in Afghanistan
September 5th, 2009 - 4:53 pm ICT by IANS
Kunduz (Afghanistan), Sep 5 (DPA) Three German soldiers were injured in a suicide bombing Saturday in northern Afghanistan, a day after a German-ordered airstrike in which dozens of people were killed in the same province.
The bomber blew himself up in an explosives-packed car, said Mohammad Omar, governor of Kunduz province. It was not known whether civilians were hurt.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the fundamentalist Islamist militia was responsible for the attack and the bomber came from Kunduz’s Chardarah district, where the Taliban is active and from which they have launched attacks in the province.
In the airstrike Friday, the German military called in air support after the Taliban hijacked two oil tankers and drove them toward Chardarah.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said about 90 people were killed or injured in the airstrike and subsequent explosion of the oil trucks. Afghan officials and residents said the dead included civilians.
The German military said more than 50 militants were killed but civilians were not involved.
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