Kandahar police chief survives suicide attack

KANDAHAR: The police chief of Afghanistan’s troubled Kandahar province Wednesday survived a suicide bombing just behind his fortified office, officials said. The militant wearing an explosives-packed vest and posing as a civilian visitor had made it to the waiting room of General Abdul Raziq’s office before detonating. “We think it was a premature explosion. The explosion took place at the waiting room of the police chief,” Ghorzang, Raziq’s secretary, told AFP. The police chief, who at the time of the blast was in his office, was separated from the waiting room by a middle room and survived the attack unhurt, he added. Ghorzang, who like many Afghans uses only one name, said the bomber had disguised himself as an ordinary resident...

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Car bomb blast kills Iran university professor

TEHRAN: Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency said a bomb blast killed a university professor, in an attack coinciding with the second anniversary of an explosion that killed a senior Iranian nuclear scientist. Fars said an assailant on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of Mostafa Ahmadi on Wednesday morning, killing the professor and injuring two others. The incident took place near Gol Nabi Street in north Tehran, it said. It was not immediately clear if Ahmadi was involved in Iran’s nuclear program, or in what department he was teaching. However, several Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated in recent years. Tehran has blamed the killings on Israel and the US. Both countries deny the accusation...

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