Kabul .- The chief of police in the restive southern Afghan province of Kandahar, Khan Mohammad Mujahid, and two other members of this body of the security forces were killed in a suicide bombing. The attack happened at the police headquarters in the region, located in the city of Kandahar, also injuring three other officers, according to spokesman said Afghan Interior Ministry, Zemarai Bashari.
According to his version, the bomber was dressed in a uniform body when he entered the police compound and detonated the explosive charge he was carrying. Taliban spokesman Mohammad Yusuf Ahmadi, claimed responsibility for the attack, adding that it is within the insurgent strategy of attacking officials and officers of the government of President Hamid Karzai.
On 7 April, five militants and six members of Afghan security forces were killed in an attack on a Taliban command against a police complex in the same province. And in February, a similar attack against a Taliban commander in Kandahar police had killed at least 21 dead. In 2010 NATO launched a major operation in the province, considered the spiritual center of the Afghan Taliban movement.
Despite having a presence throughout the country, the actions of the insurgents are more common in the belt southeast Afghanistan, a predominantly Pashtun and the Taliban itself. 
According to his version, the bomber was dressed in a uniform body when he entered the police compound and detonated the explosive charge he was carrying. Taliban spokesman Mohammad Yusuf Ahmadi, claimed responsibility for the attack, adding that it is within the insurgent strategy of attacking officials and officers of the government of President Hamid Karzai.
On 7 April, five militants and six members of Afghan security forces were killed in an attack on a Taliban command against a police complex in the same province. And in February, a similar attack against a Taliban commander in Kandahar police had killed at least 21 dead. In 2010 NATO launched a major operation in the province, considered the spiritual center of the Afghan Taliban movement.
Despite having a presence throughout the country, the actions of the insurgents are more common in the belt southeast Afghanistan, a predominantly Pashtun and the Taliban itself.
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