Taliban suicide squad expired three Afghan police

KHOST: Three Afghan policemen were expired Thursday when Taliban militants in a central police training in second suicide bomber struck eastern Afghanistan in as many days.

The incident in Paktia province, bordering Pakistan, was one of three suicide strikes targeting officials or the military in Afghanistan Thursday morning.

Insurgents increasing attacks against Afghan security forces, whose role will increase as the U.S. led NATO troops prepare to hand over responsibility for security in seven areas in July and prepare to withdraw by 2014.

"Three suicide bombers attacked the center of the local police training Aryoob Zazai district," said Rohullah Samoon, a spokesman for the governor's office.

"One of the assailants managed to detonate his explosive belt, following which two local police officers and a policeman were killed and two national policemen were injured national.

"The bomber was shot seconds before exploding himself. The third attacker escaped and police are searching for him," he added.

It came a day after a suicide bomber expired 10 people, including a well known elder, at a gathering of tribes in the eastern province of Kunar.

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack, and bombing for 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Kabul that targeted the office of a senior local official, wounding four people including three policemen.

"A suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with explosives in front of the small office of the Chief District Musayi this morning," spokesman of the Kabul police Hashmat Stanikzai said.

"Three policemen and a civilian bystander were wounded in the explosion."