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Dozens die in Kabul bus bombing Afghan police hit by suicide bomb
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At least 35 people died after a police bus was hit by a suicide bomber in the Afghan capital, Kabul, senior officer Ali Shah Paktiawal has said. A suicide bomb attack on an Afghan police bus has killed up to 18 people and injured many in Kabul, police and hospital officials say.
Witness Mohammad Hasiz told the BBC it happened close to police headquarters in the city centre at rush hour. The bomb went off close to police headquarters in the city centre at rush hour. Most of the dead are police recruits or instructors.
All roads into the area, also home to the interior ministry, have been shut. Taleban rebels told the BBC that they were responsible for the bomb attack - the fifth one in three days.
It is the fifth bomb attack in the last three days, one of them in Kabul, but it seems to be the deadliest in the capital since the Taleban was ousted. The blast site resembled a scene from Baghdad, the BBC's John Simpson says.
The deputy chief of police told the BBC that a man blew himself up on board the bus, which was carrying instructors from the police academy. Such an attack is disturbingly new on the streets of Kabul and the tactics appear to have been borrowed directly from Iraq, our world affairs editor reports from Kabul.
The BBC's John Simpson reports from Kabul that the attack is something you can see every day in Baghdad but is disturbingly new on the streets of Kabul. 'Fire and dust'
'Scene from Baghdad' Senior officer Ali Shah Paktiawal said that 35 people had been killed but a doctor at a nearby hospital, Fazel Rahim, told The Associated Press he had counted 18 bodies while 35 people were being treated for injuries.
Just outside the police headquarters, the wrecked bus where the bomb went off is being searched still for bodies and for any trace of the bomb, our world affairs editor says. The police official told the BBC that a man had blown himself up on board the police academy bus.
On the road around, there were little pools of blood and bits of bodies. Wali Mohammad, an eyewitness who was driving his car just behind the bus, told AFP news agency that both police and civilians were among the dead and injured.
The bus was completely destroyed in the blast, which also damaged other vehicles and may have caused injuries amongst the many pedestrians on the street. He said he had seen "a big fire and dust" in front of him.
A tactic of blowing up buses, particularly if they have got policemen or soldiers on them, has been borrowed directly from Iraq, just like the tactic of the suicide bomb. Outside the police headquarters, there were little pools of blood and bits of bodies.
It seems that Baghdad, our world affairs editor adds, has come to Kabul.
According to Afghan media reports, Sunday was to see the handover of police training in Kabul from Germany to the European Union.According to Afghan media reports, Sunday was to see the handover of police training in Kabul from Germany to the European Union.
The city saw another suicide attack at exactly the same time on Saturday morning. That incident on the outskirts caused at least three deaths.The city saw another suicide attack at exactly the same time on Saturday morning. That incident on the outskirts caused at least three deaths.
The past two days have also seen suicide attacks in the north and south of the country.The past two days have also seen suicide attacks in the north and south of the country.