Policemen die in Afghan attack

by Al Jazeera (reposted)

Mon, Apr 16, 2007 7:31AM

A suicide attacker has run on to a police training station and blown himself up, killing up to 10 policemen and wounding dozens of others in northern Afghanistan, officials say.

Monday's attack happened in the relatively quiet city of Kunduz, where police were doing their morning exercises in a field, Abdul Hadi, a security official, said.

Hadi said that according to preliminary reports, 10 police officers were killed and 10 wounded.

Azizullah Safar, chief of the Kunduz hospital, said 41 victims were brought to his hospital: nine of them died and 32 were wounded, including four in a critical condition.

Taliban blamed

General Mohammad Ayub Salangi, police chief of the province of Kunduz, blamed the attack on the Taliban and al-Qaeda, but he did not provide any further details.

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