KABUL, February 2 (RIA Novosti) - At least 21 police
officers were killed in a suicide attack on a police compound
in the southern Afghan city of Tarin Kot, a source in the
country's Interior Ministry told RIA Novosti on Monday.
The bomber, dressed as a police officer, blew himself up
at a police training facility in the country's Uruzgan Province
on Monday morning killing 21 and injuring eight others, seven
of whom are in critical condition.
The radical Taliban movement has claimed responsibility
for the attack.
"The Afghan Interior Ministry condemns this terrorist act
against those who protect the interests of its people,"
ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said.
Afghanistan's Defense Ministry also announced that three
suspected terrorists had been arrested and were currently being
questioned, a spokesman said.
"Details of the arrest will be given to the media after
investigations have been carried out into the incident," the
Defense Ministry's press secretary, Col. Zahir Murad, said.
Taliban militants have been behind hundreds of suicide
attacks since they were forced from power in late 2001 by a
US-led military coalition. The militants carried out more than
120 suicide bombings last year.
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