Afghan: Gunmen Killed 15 People And Wounded Over 40.
Seven police and around 40 civilians have been wounded.
Image / Reuters.
An ongoing suicide and gun attack on a police training center in a southeast Afghan city has killed at least 15 people and wounded over 40, a hospital official said Tuesday.
A local official said two car bombs went off near the compound that also houses the provincial headquarters of the national police, border police and Afghan National Army. told AFP.
The victims of the attack, which was claimed by the Taliban in a tweet, include “women, students and police,” Hedayatullah Hamidi, public health director in Gardez, the capital of Paktia province
“At first a suicide bomber detonated a car filled with explosives near the training center, making way for a number of attackers to start their assault,” the interior ministry said in a statement.
A battle between the attackers, armed with guns and suicide vests, and security forces was underway inside the center which is located near the Paktia police headquarters, it said.
“A group of gunmen have entered the compound and fighting is ongoing,” Allah Mir Bahram, a member of the Paktia provincial council, told AFP.
The attack came hours after a US drone strike in Pakistan’s Kurram tribal district, part of which borders Paktia, killed at least 26 Haqqani militants, officials have said.
It was blamed for the truck bomb deep in the heart of the Afghan capital Kabul in May that killed around 150 people.
The Haqqanis have also been accused of assassinating top Afghan officials and holding kidnapped Westerners for ransom.
Militants also targeted security forces in Ghazni on Tuesday, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Gardez, officials there said.
Haref Noori, the Ghazni governor’s spokesman, told AFP, that attack, also ongoing, followed the same pattern, with “terrorists” detonating an explosives-laden Humvee vehicle near a police headquarters and attackers storming the building.
Initial reports show seven police and around 20 civilians have been wounded, he added.
Seven police and around 40 civilians have been wounded.
Image / Reuters.
An ongoing suicide and gun attack on a police training center in a southeast Afghan city has killed at least 15 people and wounded over 40, a hospital official said Tuesday.
A local official said two car bombs went off near the compound that also houses the provincial headquarters of the national police, border police and Afghan National Army. told AFP.
The victims of the attack, which was claimed by the Taliban in a tweet, include “women, students and police,” Hedayatullah Hamidi, public health director in Gardez, the capital of Paktia province
“At first a suicide bomber detonated a car filled with explosives near the training center, making way for a number of attackers to start their assault,” the interior ministry said in a statement.
A battle between the attackers, armed with guns and suicide vests, and security forces was underway inside the center which is located near the Paktia police headquarters, it said.
“A group of gunmen have entered the compound and fighting is ongoing,” Allah Mir Bahram, a member of the Paktia provincial council, told AFP.
The attack came hours after a US drone strike in Pakistan’s Kurram tribal district, part of which borders Paktia, killed at least 26 Haqqani militants, officials have said.
It was blamed for the truck bomb deep in the heart of the Afghan capital Kabul in May that killed around 150 people.
The Haqqanis have also been accused of assassinating top Afghan officials and holding kidnapped Westerners for ransom.
Militants also targeted security forces in Ghazni on Tuesday, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Gardez, officials there said.
Haref Noori, the Ghazni governor’s spokesman, told AFP, that attack, also ongoing, followed the same pattern, with “terrorists” detonating an explosives-laden Humvee vehicle near a police headquarters and attackers storming the building.
Initial reports show seven police and around 20 civilians have been wounded, he added.
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