Suicide bomber kills 13 in attack on Afghan police

KABOOM! Another dumb-ass, indoctrinated Muslim blows himself to bits and kills over a dozen innocent people in Afghanistan. Once again, isn’t religion a “wonderful” thing? TGO

Refer to story below. Source: Reuters

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed 13 people and wounded at least 20 in an attack on a minibus carrying police cadets in the main city in Afghanistan’s turbulent east Wednesday, a government spokesman said.

Ahmadzia Abdulzai, a spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, said the bomber had rammed an explosives-packed car into the bus carrying cadets in Jalalabad city.

“It was a suicide attack against a small bus carrying Afghan police,” Abdulzai told Reuters. “The dead and wounded include police and civilians.”

Afghan and foreign security forces, as well as government officials, are often targeted in attacks by insurgents in Afghanistan.

The Taliban said at the beginning of this month that it had begun its long-awaited “spring offensive,” with senior U.S. commanders also saying they expected a significant spike in violence.

U.S. and NATO commanders have claimed major success against insurgents in the south over the past 12 months, but insurgents in the east have proved harder to pin down.

While the Taliban dominate the insurgency in the south, the fight in the east is more fragmented and includes other groups such as the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network.

Violence across Afghanistan last year hit its worst levels since the Taliban were ousted by U.S.-backed Afghan forces in late 2001.

(Reporting by Mohammad Rafiq; Editing by Paul Tait and Alex Richardson)

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