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Suicide attacks hit southern Afghan city, killing over 30
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 13 - 03 - 2010


Four suicide bombers attacked
different parts of southern city of Kandahar on Saturday, killing
more than 30 people and injured at least 40 others, officials said, according to dpa.
The main target of the coordinated attacks was Kandahar's main
jail, which houses hundreds of Taliban militants caught during the
anti-insurgency operation by Afghan and NATO forces, Ahmad Wali
Karzai, President Hamid Karzai's younger brother said.
"I believe the attackers could not make their way inside the
prison," Karzai, who is the head of provincial council and currently
visiting Kabul, told the German Press Agency dpa.
The Taliban militants attacked the same prison in June 2008,
breaching the prisons security barriers and freeing hundreds of
inmates, mostly Taliban fighters.
Karzai said that dozens of people were killed and wounded in the
attacks, but could not give any exact figures.
"More than 30 people, including three police officers were killed
in the attacks," Abdul Jamil, a police officer said. He said more
than 40 others, mostly civilians, were injured in the attacks.
"We received 25 dead bodies so far," Mohammad Karim, a doctor in
Mirwais Hospital, the main medical facility in country's second
biggest city said.
At least two suicide bombers detonated their explosives near the
police chief's residence and provincial council's compound in the
western part of the city, Jamil said, adding that gunshots also rang
out in at least two localities.
There was also an explosion near a wedding hall in the city,
causing casualties among the guests, Mohammad Daoud, a local
resident, who lives near the site, said.
The attacks in Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban movement
and the main headquarters for their leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar,
until late 2001, happens as the biggest-ever operation by Afghan and
NATO forces in the neighbouring province of Helmand completed its
first month on Saturday.
Afghan and NATO officials have said that the operation in
Helmand's Marjah is a prelude to a bigger offensive to take place in
Kandahar in spring. The top NATO commander in the country, US General
Stanley McChrystal has said that the operation would take place when
additional US troops arrive in the region.
US officials have said that most of the extra 30,000 US troops to
arrive in the country by summer will be stationed in Kandahar.
The Kandahar attacks come after a roadside blast earlier Saturday
in southern Afghanistan claimed six lives, though it remained unclear
if the dead were military or civilians.


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