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Afghan suicide bomber strikes in Baghlan province | Afghan suicide bomber strikes in Baghlan province |
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A suicide bomber has killed at least 14 people in northern Afghanistan's Baghlan province, including a senior local politician, police say. | A suicide bomber has killed at least 14 people in northern Afghanistan's Baghlan province, including a senior local politician, police say. |
Haji Rasool Khan Mohseni was the head of the provincial council. | Haji Rasool Khan Mohseni was the head of the provincial council. |
Police officials told the BBC that an attacker wearing police uniform detonated a suicide vest at the gate of the council's headquarters in Baghlan's capital Pul-e Khomri. | |
At least nine people were injured in the attack. | |
The BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul says Mr Rasool had been a key anti-Taliban figure in the province. | The BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul says Mr Rasool had been a key anti-Taliban figure in the province. |
The bomber arrived on foot and targeted Mr Rasool, police say. | The bomber arrived on foot and targeted Mr Rasool, police say. |
"He was basically waiting for his target," Baghlan deputy police chief Mohammed Sadeq Muradi told the Associated Press news agency. | |
Several of the dead were police guards; others were civilians waiting to speak to the politician. | |
Mr Rasool had received multiple death threats, a member of parliament for Baghlan, Mohammad Zahier Ghanizada, told AP. | |
The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack. | |
In a statement, Afghan President Hamid Karzai described the bombing as "a cowardly act," and described the killing of civilians as "anti-Islamic and inhuman." |