{"id":1691,"date":"2011-07-31T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2011-07-31T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T14:44:40","slug":"taliban-claim-latest-deadly-afghan-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/07\/31\/1691\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban claim latest deadly Afghan attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news1\/afghanistan_attack_05.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>A suicide bomber has struck police headquarters in the capital of Helmand province, killing 10 Afghan policemen and a child in a city where Afghans have recently taken control of security.  <!--more-->  <br \/>The attack in the heart of Lashkar Gah on Sunday was a reminder of the Taliban&#8217;s reach, even at a time of stepped up pressure from US and Afghan troops.<br \/>Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi claimed responsibility for the attack, according to news agencies.<br \/>Helmand provincial spokesman Daoud Ahmadi said police guarding the gate received the worst of the blast, but three civilians were among the 12 wounded.<br \/>&#8220;The information given by the crime scene unit of the police is that 10 policemen and a young child have been killed in the attack,&#8221; said Ahmadi.<br \/>&#8220;It was a suicide car bomb and was very powerful,&#8221; he added.<br \/>Ahmadi added that the blast happened in front of the heavily-secured office of the police chief as a police vehicle entered the compound.<br \/>A wall of the compound also collapsed in the explosion and it was unclear if anyone was trapped<br \/>underneath, Ahmadi said. People at the site told reporters they saw a police vehicle on fire at the gate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taliban stronghold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest blast follows an uptick in assassinations in southern Afghanistan in recent weeks, including that of President Hamid Karzai&#8217;s powerful half-brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, in neighbouring Kandahar province.<br \/>It has been less than two weeks since Lashkar Gah was formally handed over to Afghan control in the first stage of a plan to have all of Afghanistan under the oversight of Afghan security forces by the end of 2014.<br \/>It is the capital city of a province that has been a stronghold of the Taliban and where US Marines have surged in over the past year to try to turn back their fighters.<br \/>The attack comes as Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tours Afghanistan for a second day.<br \/>He has been meeting with military commanders and troops in the south, a region that has been rocked by violence and suicide attacks in recent weeks.<br \/><em><br \/>Source: Agencies<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide bomber has struck police headquarters in the capital of Helmand province, killing 10 Afghan policemen and a child in a city where Afghans have recently taken control of security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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