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Suicide attack hits Afghan police, three killed

KUNDUZ: The police chief of Afghanistan's northern province Kunduz escaped unhurt Friday when a suicide bomber targete
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"The target was the provincial police chief, but he is not hurt. Three policemen were killed and three others were wounded," provincial government spokesman Mahboobullah Saeedi told AFP.

"The suicide bomber tried to enter the mosque where memorial prayers were taking place for general (Mohammed) Daoud Daoud, but policemen prevented him from getting inside," Saeedi said.

Daoud Daoud, head of police in northern Afghanistan, was killed in a suicide attack claimed by the Taliban on May 28 in Taloqan, capital of Takhar, the neighbouring province to Kunduz.

 

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011