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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Secondary Navigation Top Stories Full Coverage Most Popular Photos Search Search: Taliban attack in Afghan govt building kills five AFP - Friday, October 31 KABUL (AFP) - - A Taliban suicide attacker killed five people when he blew himself up inside the information and culture ministry building in the Afghan capital, police said on Thursday. The bomb exploded in a conference room underneath the office of the minister, Abdul Karim Khoram, but he was not in the building at the time, ministry spokesman Hameed Nasiri Wardak told AFP. "I can say that the target was the minister," he said. Khoram was badly wounded in a suicide blast in the southern city of Kandahar in May. The Islamic Taliban, who were in power in Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, are waging an insurgency against the Western-backed government that has seen a record number of attacks this year, leaving hundreds dead. The attacker had first shot dead a guard at the entrance to the building and then ran into the conference room where he blew himself up, deputy Kabul police chief General Alishah Ahmadzai told AFP. "Three people were martyred immediately at the spot. Two others who were critically wounded died of their wounds in hospitals," he said. The dead were four men and a woman, Ahmadzai said. The interior ministry said three were ministry employees. "In total 23 wounded were taken to different hospitals in the city," health ministry spokesman Abdullah Fahim told AFP, confirming two had died in hospital. The wounded included some children at a kindergarten on the compound for ministry employees, a witness said. A spokesman for the Islamic Taliban militia, Zabihullah Mujahed, told AFP by telephone there had been three attackers who first shot their way in. Two had escaped and the other had blown himself up, said the spokesman. "The suicide bomber targeted foreign experts," he said. It was not possible to confirm if there were any foreign nationals in the building at the time. "First we heard several gun shots followed by a huge blast," said Mohammad Karim, 26, who works in a mobile phone shop in the area. "We all closed our shops and people were running away. It was a strong blast." President Hamid Karzai, on a visit to Turkey, condemned Thursday's attack in a statement. "Our enemies are trying to undermine the recent efforts by the government for a peaceful solution to end the violence," he added. The radical Taliban were removed from government in a US-led invasion for refusing to hand over the Al-Qaeda allies for the September 2001 attacks on the United States. With insurgent attacks at a record level, there has been new emphasis this year on talks with militants who agree to lay down their arms and are not with Al-Qaeda. The violence is concentrated mainly in southern and eastern Afghanistan but there have been several attacks inside the city this year and Taliban insurgents are said to control areas close to the capital. A British-South African aid worker was shot dead in Kabul last week in a murder also claimed by the Taliban. The rebels said they targeted her organisation, SERVE Afghanistan, because it was "preaching Christianity", a claim it denied. Days later a South African and a Briton -- the heads of the Afghanistan branch of international courier DHL in Kabul -- were shot dead by their guard, who then turned the gun on himself. The motive for those killings is unclear with interior ministry saying it may have been a "terror attack". Also Thursday, a remote-controlled bomb blew up a police vehicle in the southern province of Kandahar and killed four policemen, a police commander said. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Most Popular – Top Stories Viewed When men see red, they see hot: study Asian stocks soar on US Fed rate cut McCain in defiance as Obama boosted by economic data World's fattest man weds friend's widow Desperate pleas end in despair as starlet's nephew found dead View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology

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