KABUL, March 30 (RIA Novosti) - Eight people were
killed and seven wounded in a blast caused by a suicide bomber
in southern Afghanistan, a local Interior Ministry's source
said on Monday.
The source said a militant dressed in a police uniform
blew himself up near an administrative building in Dun
district, some 15 km (10 miles) south of the city of Kandahar,
killing five policemen and three civilians.
"Seven more people, including two policemen, who were in
the building at the time, were wounded," the source added.
More than 2,100 Afghan civilians were killed last year, by
both extremist groups and the U.S.-led coalition troops,
according to official statistics.
The Taliban militant regime was ousted by the U.S.-led
invasion in 2001, but the Central Asian state has experienced a
rise in violence in recent years, with skirmishes and suicide
bomb attacks being reported daily.
The United States plans to send thousands of more troops
into the country to try to reverse the Taliban insurgency.
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