Taliban Suicide Bomb Attack injures Gen. Markus Kneip, the NATO force's commander and kills top police commander injuring several

Taliban Suicide Bomb Attack injures Gen. Markus Kneip,
the NATO force's commander and kills top police commander injuring several

KABUL, Afghanistan –

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said the attack struck “a very important security meeting.”



Afghan Officials said that A Taliban suicide bomber entered wearing a police uniform blew himself up inside a heavily guarded governor’s compound in northern Afghanistan where top NATO and Afghan officials were meeting, killing several people there, including the highly regarded regional police commander, Gen. Daoud Daoud.
A suicide bomber wearing a police uniform blew himself up inside a heavily guarded compound
Suicide attack killed two senior Afghan police commanders and wounding the German general who commands coalition troops in northern Afghanistan.
provincial police chief Gen. Shah Jahan Noori, a secretary to the governor and one of Daud's bodyguards were killed in attack.

Gen. Markus Kneip, the NATO force's commander for northern Afghanistan, was among the injured

Two German soldiers and two other Afghans were killed in the blast.

Abdul Jabar Taqwa, the Takhar province governor who was at the meeting, suffered burns to his head, hands and back.

Nine other Afghans were wounded -- a cameraman working in the governor's office and eight Afghan troops.

Faiz Mohammad Tawhedi, a spokesman for the governor told that The bomber detonated his explosives-laden vest inside the governor's complex in Takhar province, where high-ranking Afghan officials were meeting with members of the international coalition.

The suicide attacker struck at 4:45 p.m. as top officials walked out of their meeting, a senior Afghan police officer told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to talk to journalists. There was a flash of fire and people started running in all directions, he said. After that, the room went dark and white smoke billowed from the compound.

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May 29, 2011

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