Suicide bomber kills 10 police in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber blew himself up in southern Afghanistan, killing 10 police and wounding 11, and a roadside bomb in the east left one NATO soldier dead, authorities said Thursday.
The suicide attacker walked into a room full of policemen eating lunch at a checkpoint near the Pakistan border, said provincial police chief Sayeed Agha Saqib.
In another echo of the conflict in Iraq, militants used a roadside bomb against North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led forces in the east, leaving one soldier dead and wounding two others, the alliance said. It did not release the soldiers’ nationalities.
In western Afghanistan, kidnappers who had demanded a $40,000 ransom released a German man and his translator, officials said. It was unclear whether a ransom had been paid.
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