| Suicide attackers kill 19 in southern Afghanistan |
| KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - 29th July 2011 (3 hours ago) |
| By Reuters |
| Suicide attackers killed at least 19 people, 12 of them young children, when they targeted government buildings in southern Afghanistan Thursday, the latest blow to a fragile region that has been destabilized by a string of assassinations. The assault in Uruzgan province also wounded 35 civilians, provincial officials said, and was the deadliest in the south in nearly six months. It began with two remote-controlled car bombs, one in front of the provincial governor’s compound and the other near the offices for regional state television channel, Uruzgan TV, said the governor’s spokesman, Ahmad Milad Modaser. Up to six suicide bombers then stormed the governor’s compound and the police chief’s compound in Tirin Kot, capital of Uruzgan, said Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi. Three bombers detonated their explosives shortly after the attacks began while the remaining attackers were locked in a hours-long gunfight with police inside the compounds, he added. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said six militants were involved. Uruzgan is a largely rural and mountainous province north of Kandahar, to which it has many cultural and tribal links, and the Taliban have long had a presence there. |
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