Tag: Suicide

KABUL - A suicide attacker in an army uniform has been killed after entering the Afghan defence ministry in Kabul, a security source speaking anonymously told AFP, confirming local media reports Monday.
"He has not detonated, he has been shot. His suicide vest is still on him," the source said. However, local television reported that three people had been injured in the attack.
A separate military source, also speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that three

BAGHDAD - Two suicide car bombs exploded at an entrance to Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone Monday, killing at least three people and wounding 10 others, an interior ministry official said.
The attack occurred at around 8:30 am (0530 GMT) at the entrance to the Green Zone, where many foreign embassies and Iraqi government offices are based, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

JALALABAD - A Taliban suicide bomber wearing an army uniform killed five foreign troops and four Afghan soldiers on Saturday in a brazen attack at the Afghan army's eastern headquarters. It was the deadliest single incident this year against foreign forces in war-torn Afghanistan and comes amid a wave of suicide attacks on security targets, three months before foreign forces start a limited pullback.
The latest strike was at an army base in the Gambiri desert area in Laghman

JALALABAD - At least four soldiers were killed and eight others injured when a suicide bomber attacked an Afghan army base in eastern Laghman province on Saturday, health officials in neighboring Nangarhar province said.
"So far four killed army personnel and eight injured people have been admitted to Jalalabad hospital this morning," a doctor who declined to be named said.
He said the death toll could rise since some injured people were in critical conditions.
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JAKARTA - A suicide bomber wounded at least 26 people when he struck a prayer room in an Indonesian police compound in the first suicide attack on a mosque in the country, police said. The bomber began the Friday prayers along with other worshippers, and was killed immediately in the explosion at around 12:15 pm (0515 GMT) at police headquarters in the city of Cirebon, West Java province, they said.
The blast appeared to mark a return of major terror attacks to Indonesia after

KANDAHAR - A suicide bomber killed on Friday the police chief of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, a stronghold of the Taliban-led insurgency, after penetrating tight defences at the police headquarters, government and security officials said.
Khan Mohammad Mujahid, one of the most prominent government targets in one of Afghanistan's most dangerous provinces, had survived two previous attacks, one on his home and one on his motorcade as it travelled through the city.