A suicide car bomber rammed the gate of a police station in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Monday, unleashing a powerful blast that killed at least one policeman, officials said. General Abdul Raziq, the provincial police chief, said the attacker detonated a bomb-laden sedan at the gate of Kandahar city’s fourth district police station, killing at least one officer. Another policeman and three civilians were injured, Jawed Faisal, the chief of the government-run Kandahar Media and Information Centre told AFP. “It was a suicide car bombing that hit the gates of the police station. One police was martyred, one police was injured and three civilians were injured,” Faisal said.
“The civilians were injured in a nearby house which was badly damaged,” he told AFP. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack but similar bombings in the past have been blamed on the Taliban, which is leading a deadly insurgency to bring down the US-backed government in Kabul. Kandahar is the birthplace of the Taliban movement. Police and government security forces, trained by the US-led NATO mission in Afghanistan, have been prime targets of insurgents.
