Two suicide attacks in southern Afghanistan killed two policemen and three civilians and wounded 18 others, while elsewhere in the country eight police officers were killed and seven others wounded in separate incidents, officials said on Wednesday, according to dpa. A male suicide bomber dressed in a woman's burqa detonated himself in the main bazaar of Spin Boldak district in the southern province of Kandahar on Wednesday morning, killing three civilians and wounding 14 civilians and a security officer, border police commander Saifullah Khan Hakim told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. "Afghan security forces spotted a man who covered himself in woman's Burqa who was apparently waiting for an Afghan and foreign forces' convoy," Hakim said, adding "the bomber exploded himself before our security forces could catch him." Meanwhile, another suicide bomber targeted a police vehicle in Gerishk district of the southern province of Helmand on Wednesday morning, killing himself and two policemen, district police chief Khair Mohammad Sheja. Sheja, who was the target of the attack and escaped unharmed, said three other policemen were wounded. "As I got out of the car, the bomber attacked us, but I managed to get inside the police headquarters building," he said.
