SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS 12 IN AFGHAN NORTH:OFFICIALS
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, April 4, 2012 (AFP) -
A suicide bomber attacked foreign military forces in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 12 people, as NATO'S fatalities for the year passed the 100 mark. “A suicide bomber targeted a group of foreign friends” near a park in Maymana, the capital of Faryab province, provincial governor Abdul Haq Shafaq told AFP. “They were military. There are casualties, dead and wounded.”faryab, which borders Turkmenistan, is far from the centres of the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan's south and east.
The Islamist militia are present in some areas of the province and it suffers sporadic attacks.nato's Us-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said two service members died after an explosion in northern Afghanistan, but refused to confirm whether it was the same incident.there were conflicting reports about the exact death toll and the identity of the victims after the suicide bomber on a motor cycle blew himself.lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, police spokesman for northern Afghanistan, described the blast as “powerful” and said six civilians and four policemen were killed, with 20 people wounded in-
There were conflicting reports about the exact death toll and the identity of the victims after the suicide bomber on a motor cycle blew himself
cluding four policemen. Most foreign troops in Faryab are Norwegian and Lieutenant Colonel John Espen Lien, a spokesman for Nor- way's armed forces, told AFP there were “at least 12 killed, but this number is not definitive”.no Norwegian ISAF personnel were near at the time of the attack, he added. Earlier, provincial police chief Abdul Khaliq Aqasai told AFP that US troops had told him four of their personnel had also died. A doctor at the town's hospital said the bodies of five civilians had been brought in, and 26 people were wounded.the “foreign friends” group had vis- ited the police headquarters in Faryab before going to the park to carry out filmed interviews with local residents, the governor said.