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Afghan police killed in bombing Afghan police killed in bombing
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At least five policemen have been killed in a suicide bombing in southern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, police say. A suicide bomber has killed at least five policemen in southern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, police say.
The blast at a frontier checkpoint near the town of Spin Boldak wounded another 11 people, police said. They said the bomber, dressed as a policemen, blew himself up at a checkpoint where police were having lunch near the town of Spin Boldak.
They said the bomber, dressed as a policemen, blew himself up in a room where police were having their lunch. In eastern Paktika province, a Nato soldier was killed in a roadside bombing, the alliance said.
Violence in Afghanistan has returned to levels not seen since the Taleban were ousted in 2001.Violence in Afghanistan has returned to levels not seen since the Taleban were ousted in 2001.
Taleban claim
Police have sealed off the scene of the bombing at the police post near Spin Boldak. Officials fear nore bodies are buried under rubble there.
"We were eating lunch around 1330, when a suicide attacker wearing police uniform entered the post and blew himself up," local border police commander Bismillah Khan told the BBC.
"Five border police are killed and 11 are injured."
A Taleban spokesman told Reuters news agency the movement had carried out the attack.
The Nato statement did not give the nationality of the soldier killed in Paktika. Most foreign soldiers in eastern Afghanistan are American.
Two other soldiers were injured and are in a stable condition in hospital.
On Wednesday, six Canadian soldiers serving in the Nato force were killed in a bombing in the southern province of Kandahar.
Hundreds of people have been killed in suicide blasts and roadside bombings in Afghanistan in recent months.
The Taleban and their allies are fighting to remove the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai.