KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- A dozen security personnel were killed after a car suicide bomb targeted the police department in Maroof district of the southern Kandahar province, 450 km south of Kabul, early Thursday, police spokesman Zia Durani said.
"Terrorists organized a suicide car bomb against police department in Maroof district in the wee hours of Thursday killing 12 security personnel and injuring four others including district police chief Nadir Khan," Durani told Xinhua.
Meantime, an official on the condition of anonymity said that 16 security personnel including some police had been killed in the attack.
Meanwhile, Qari Yusuf Ahmadi who claims to speak for the Taliban outfit in contact with media claimed responsibility for the attack and insisted that over two dozen security personnel had been killed.
