Hero! Afghan bomber kills 18 policemen

Subject: Hero! Afghan bomber kills 18 policemen Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:46 am

A suicide bomb attacker in police uniform has blown himself up inside a police station in Afghanistan, killing at least 18 officers, police said.

Many others were wounded in the attack in Tirin Kot, the capital of Uruzgan province in the south of the country.

The explosion, which has been described as "very powerful", has also damaged several buildings, police said.

Southern Afghanistan is the centre of the Taleban-led insurgency since the US invasion of the country in 2001.

"In the suicide blast, 18 policemen were martyred and several others were wounded," news agency AFP quoted Juma Gul Himat, the provincial police chief, as saying.

"We are investigating the incident," he added.

The bomber set off explosives strapped to his body when policemen were getting ready to stand in line for the morning exercise, he said.

Officials say the attack is the worst on the police in recent months in Afghanistan.

Separately, a spokesman for the Afghan National Army told the BBC that its soldiers had arrested three men wearing suicide vests in the Dirawoad district, neighbouring Tirin Kot.

LNK

Hero! Afghan bomber kills 18 policemen

Hero! Afghan bomber kills 18 policemen

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