Alwaght- A car bomb targeted a police vehicle in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province on Friday evening, killing twopolice officers.
Kandahar Police Chief Gen. Abdul Raziq confirmed the incident as a suicide attack, saying the explosion happened in Aino Mina Township in PD11 of Kandahar City.
Zia Durrani, provincial police spokesman, told Xinhua that "a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb when a police mobile patrol was passing by Aino Mina neighborhood in the largest southern Afghan city late Friday night, leaving the casualties."
Those among the injured were four policemen and eight civilians.
However, the provincial hospital officials are saying that the dead bodies of four people have been shifted to the hospital along with ten others with the injuries.
The Taliban insurgent group, which has been waging an insurgency of more than 16 years, has claimed responsibility for the attack.
This come as the security situation in Kandahar province had improved during the recent years although the anti-government often carry out terrorist-related activities in some parts of the province.
Kandahar has witnessed several deadly attacks on security forces over the last few months.
In October, at least 43 government troops were killed in an attack by Taliban terrorists targeting a military base in Maiwand district of Kandahar.
There was also another incident in July when Taliban terrorists killed 26 soldiers and wounded 13 others in an attack on an army outpost in Khakriz district, to the north of Kandahar city.
Just days ago, the Taliban attacked the Hotel Intercontinental in the capital, Kabul, killing at least 22 people.
Afghanistan is still suffering from insecurity and violence years after the US and its allies invaded the country in 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror. US-led forces continue to occupy the country amid an upsurge of terrorists attacks and an unprecedented increase on narcotics production.
