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Afghan suicide attack 'kills one' Suicide bomber hits Afghan north
(about 12 hours later)
A suicide bomber has blown himself up outside a police station in north-eastern Afghanistan, police said. A suicide bomber has blown himself up outside a police station in north-eastern Afghanistan killing at least one civilian, police say.
One civilian was killed in the attack in the town of Faizabad and at least a dozen others were wounded. A dozen others were reported wounded in the attack in the town of Faizabad.
This is the first suicide attack in the far north of the country where Taleban militants are not known to be active. It is thought to be the first suicide attack in an area where Taleban militants are not known to be active.
Most of the violence so far has been reported from the south and the east where violence has peaked since the Taleban were thrown out in 2001. Meanwhile, Germany's foreign ministry has confirmed that it is treating the disappearance of two of its citizens in central Afghanistan as kidnap.
The bomber detonated the explosives strapped to his body during the morning rush hour outside the main police station in Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan province, Reuters news agency reports. "Based on the information we have at this time, we believe this is a kidnapping," Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Jaeger said.
The casualties are all civilians, provincial police chief Gen Noor Aqa is quoted as saying by Reuters. He said a crisis team had been set up in Berlin and at the embassy in Kabul to find the pair, who were "employees of a company in Kabul".
There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but authorities say they suspect Taleban militants. Police in Afghanistan said on Wednesday that the Germans were seized in Wardak province where they had been working along with two Afghans.
Civilian casualties
Most of the violence in Afghanistan so far has been reported from the south and the east where violence has escalated since the Taleban were thrown out in 2001.
The bomber in the latest incident detonated explosives strapped to his body during the morning rush hour outside the main police station in Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan province, Reuters news agency reports.
The casualties were all civilians, the agency quoted provincial police chief Gen Noor Aqa as saying.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but authorities say they suspect Taleban militants.
The province has been regarded as one of Afghanistan's safer provinces compared with the Taleban's southern heartlands.