Suicide attack hits Afghan army check post, bomber killed

A suicide bombing went off Wednesday morning near an Afghan army security check post in the country's eastern province of Ghazni, causing no casualties among the soldiers but leaving the attacker dead, said sources. "A militant driving a car set off his explosive-packed sedan near the army outpost in Mohammad Omar area of Muqur district early Wednesday morning. No member of the post or civilian were hurt in the blast," the district governor Sahib Khan told Xinhua. The attacker was killed on the spot. Earlier on Wednesday, one suicide attacker was shot dead by Afghan police in the southern Kandahar province. The bomber tried to target the provincial police chief convoy near a key government building named Mandigag Castle in the provincial capital of Kandahar city, 450 km south of Kabul. The bomb disposal team later defused the explosive jacket of the killed militant, the provincial sources confirmed. The Taliban, who ruled the country before they were ousted by a U.S.-led invasion in late 2001, renewed armed insurgency, staging ambushes and suicide attacks, killing combatants as well as civilians. Up to 167 civilians were killed and 317 civilians were wounded in Taliban-led attacks across the war-hit country over the past month, according to the Interior Ministry officials.