Afghan suicide blast - 37 Killed & Nearly 40 Wounded so far !

A suicide attack on an army recruitment centre in North Afghanistan's Kunduz province kills 37 people and injures 40. Three children are among the victims of Monday's attack, one of the deadliest in recent months. A spokesman for the governor of Kunduz province, Mahboubullah Sayedi, confirmed the attack.












"There was a suicide attack at the army recruitment centre in Kunduz city," he said. The spokesman added: "Most of those killed were volunteers who wanted to join the army."


Last week, the Kunduz police chief was killed by a suicide bomber while out on patrol in the city, and the previous governor of the restive region was killed in an attack last October on a mosque where he was worshiping. Al Jazeera's Sue Turton, reporting from the capital Kabul, said the latest attack comes as armed groups fighting the Afghan government ratchet up their operations in the province.


source ; Al Jazeera