A suicide attack killed several Afghan officials and civilians on Saturday in a crowded area of the northeast city of Kunduz, provincial authorities said.
Officials among the victims included “the city’s counter terrorism police chief and head of traffic police chief”, the Kunduz provincial governor’s spokesman Enayatullah Khaleeq told AFP, adding that “several other policemen and civilians are killed and wounded”.
Kunduz police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hussani confirmed the casualties and the attack, saying it took place around 5:20 pm (12:50 GMT).
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but such incidents have in the past been carried out by Taliban insurgents who are leading an 11-year war against the US-backed government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Earlier in the day a suicide attacker riding a bicycle killed two civilians in southeastern Afghanistan’s Ghazni province.
On Friday, a suicide bomber in a car attacked a NATO convoy in Afghanistan’s strategic Kapisa province on Friday, killing at least five civilians and wounding 15, officials said.
Suicide attack kills 'several' in northeast Afghanistan
