Five killed in car-bomb attack on Afghan police
Sat Dec 15, 2007 7:03am EST
By Hamid Shalizi
KABUL (Reuters) - A vehicle packed with rockets blew
up outside police headquarters in the Afghan capital
on Saturday, killing five people and wounding two, the
government said.
The Taliban, which relies heavily on suicide and
roadside bombs in their insurgency against the
government and foreign troops, claimed responsibility
for the bombing, which a Defense Ministry official had
earlier said was a suicide attack.
"It was a remote-controlled explosion in a mini-truck
vehicle packed with rockets near the office of city
police," an Interior Ministry official said.
The five dead were civilians, he said.
The vehicle was packed with BM12 rockets pointing
towards the police chief's office, a police official
said. About five of the rockets failed to explode, he
said.
A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, claimed
responsibility.
In early December, Taliban suicide bombers attacked
twice in Kabul around the time of a visit by U.S.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
A bomber slammed his car into a bus filled with Afghan
soldiers in Kabul on December 5, killing 13 people. On
December 4, a NATO convoy was hit by a similar attack
close to the international airport. There were no NATO
casualties, but 22 Afghans were wounded.
The worst suicide attack in Kabul hit an army bus in
September and killed 28 army personnel.
More than 10,000 people have been killed in the past
two years, the bloodiest period since the Taliban's
overthrow in 2001. An increasing number of Afghans are
frustrated with the lack of progress toward peace.
(By Hamid Shalizi; editing by Robert Birsel and Grant
McCool)
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