Suicide Bombing Kills 21 Afghanistan Police

A suicide bomber in southern Afghanistan has killed 21 police officers and wounded at least twenty others at a training centre.

A suicide bomber waring a police uniform has killed 21 police officers and wounded at least 20 other officers. The bomber walked into a police training centre in southern Afghanistan on Monday, in Tirin Kot, the capital of Uruzgan province. The bomber then detonated explosives hidden under his clothes as the police reservists were exercising. A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, has claimed responsibility for the blast in a phone call from an undisclosed location. Ahmadi added the militants will continue to launch bomb attacks on Afghan government officials and foreign troops in the country. Police, over the past several years, have borne the brunt of militant attacks. In 2008, 868 policemen were killed in insurgent attacks and more than 900 police were killed in 2007. Uruzgan province is the birthplace of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and is just north of Kandahar province, where the majority of the 2,500 Canadian Forces in the country are stationed.