“Four people are killed, three civilians and a policeman,” said Siddiq Siddiqui, adding that he had no information on foreign casualties from the attack. AGENCIES
A female suicide bomber blew herself up on Saturday as she tried to attack a local government office in the capital of Kunar province, a hotbed of militancy in northeast Afghanistan along the Pakistan border. Abdul Sabor Allayar, deputy provincial police chief, said the guards outside the government’s intelligence office in Asad Abad became suspicious of the woman and started shooting, at which point she detonated her explosives. There were no other casualties in the attack. In addition to that, a suicide bomber attacked a convoy of foreign soldiers in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday, a police official said, but there was no immediate word on casualties. “A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of foreign troops but there are no details about casualties yet,” said Hashmat Stanekzai, a spokesman for the Kabul police chief. Three civilians and one policeman were killed in in the attack, a spokesman for the interior ministry told AFP. “Four people are killed, three civilians and a policeman,” said Siddiq Siddiqui, adding that he had no information on foreign casualties from the attack. Meanwhile, a western source said that at least 10 foreign troops were killed in the attack. Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces conducted operations earlier this month, killing more than 100 insurgents in an effort to curb violence in rugged areas of Kunar where the coalition and Afghan government have a light footprint. Farther south along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, Afghan and coalition forces captured two leaders of the Haqqani network and two other suspected insurgents in Sarobi district of Paktika province, the coalition said. Haqqani fighters, who are affiliated with the Taliban and al-Qaeda, are heavily rooted in Paktika and neighboring Paktia and Khost provinces. One of the captured leaders provided insurgent fighters with funding, weapons, supplies and hideouts, and the other coordinated attacks against Afghan forces, the coalition said.