Insurgent attacks in Afghanistan killed at least nine police and two road workers Wednesday, and a suicide bomber targeting Nato forces wounded a civilian in the capital, police said. A suicide bomber in police uniform blew himself up at a provincial police headquarters in south-eastern Afghanistan, killing three people and wounding eight others, police said.
The incident involved two attackers, disguised as police officers, who approached the gates of the main police office in Khost, the capital of the province of the same name, and one of them opened fire at police guards.
Officers returned fire, killing one attacker, and the second blew himself up, a policeman at the scene said. Separately, a police convoy on the Kandahar-Kabul road was hit by gunfire and rocket propelled grenades from an unknown number of insurgents in the Shahr-e-Safa district of southern Zabul province, the provincial police chief said.