KANDAHAR: Taliban militants detonated a suicide bomb and stormed a bank in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing five policemen and five civilians as the country endures a rise in violence as US-led Nato troops pull out.
The attackers forced their way inside after a bomb exploded at the entrance of the Kabul Bank branch in Lashkar Gah, the capital of the insurgency-racked province of Helmand.
“The blast at the gate was a suicide attacker blowing himself up to open the way for others to enter the building,” Omar Zhwak, provincial spokesman for Helmand, told AFP.
“Ten people including five security forces were killed, and 14 people were wounded. There were three attackers inside the building and all were killed.AFP
