Afghan attacks kill five as vote nears
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
KANDAHAR, Aug 4 (AFP): Suicide and rocket attacks killed five people and wounded more than 20 others across Afghanistan Tuesday, fanning security fears just over two weeks before elections.
A provincial governor survived an assassination attempt just 10 kilometres outside the Afghan capital Kabul and eight rockets slammed into the city, wounding a child and adult, authorities said.
In the southern province of Zabul, a suicide attacker walked up to an intelligence agency vehicle in a busy bazaar and blew himself up, killing one of the agency's staff and four civilian passers-by, police said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the attack was similar to scores carried out by the Taliban, which routinely bombs security services in a bloody insurgency that reached record levels this year.
Sixteen civilians, including three children, two agency staffers and a policeman were wounded, deputy provincial police chief Ghulam Jailani Khan told the reporter.
A provincial governor survived an assassination attempt just 10 kilometres outside the Afghan capital Kabul and eight rockets slammed into the city, wounding a child and adult, authorities said.
In the southern province of Zabul, a suicide attacker walked up to an intelligence agency vehicle in a busy bazaar and blew himself up, killing one of the agency's staff and four civilian passers-by, police said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the attack was similar to scores carried out by the Taliban, which routinely bombs security services in a bloody insurgency that reached record levels this year.
Sixteen civilians, including three children, two agency staffers and a policeman were wounded, deputy provincial police chief Ghulam Jailani Khan told the reporter.