Five killed in Afghanistan as Taliban storm Kandahar police station
Taliban fighters backed by a suicide bomber attacked a police headquarters in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing five people as the insurgents step up attacks and foreign forces pack up and leave the country.
The latest attack on Afghan security forces was in the southern province of Kandahar, the cradle of the hard-line Islamist Taliban movement that ruled Afghanistan for five years.
A policeman and four civilians died in the attack that started when a suicide bomber dressed in a police uniform detonated a carload of explosives at the main gate of the compound in Kandahar's Maiwand district.
Four heavily armed gunmen then forced their way inside, government spokesman Sameem Khpalwak said. The fighting in Maiwand lasted for two hours, before security forces killed the attackers.
