Nine people were killed on Sunday in a suicide car bomb attack on police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a bastion of Taliban militancy, government officials said.
A police pick-up truck drives a corpse away following a car bomb in a car park outside police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on February 5. Nine people were killed on Sunday in a suicide car bomb attack on police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a bastion of Taliban militancy, government officials said.
Seven policemen were among those killed in the blast, which also wounded 19 people wounded, according to a statement from the Afghan president's office.
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