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| Attack on Afghan police post leaves 17 dead | Attack on Afghan police post leaves 17 dead |
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| An attack by insurgents on a police post in Afghanistan has left 11 police officers and six others dead. | |
| The Taliban said it carried out the attack, in the eastern province of Ghazni. | The Taliban said it carried out the attack, in the eastern province of Ghazni. |
| Two guards from the site have been arrested and are being questioned about why they failed to stop the attack, Governor of Ghazni Musa Khan Akbarzada told the BBC. | |
| Both the Taliban and al-Qaeda are known to operate in Ghazni province. | |
| Last year the district saw a local uprising against the insurgents but since then security in the area has deteriorated, the BBC's Quentin Somerville reports from Kabul. | |
| Eleven of the dead were police officers, while the rest may have been visiting friends, Mr Akbarzada said. | |
| All were shot while they slept at the base, he said. | |
| He added that the Ghazni chief of police had been sent to the area to investigate the incident. | He added that the Ghazni chief of police had been sent to the area to investigate the incident. |
| Elsewhere in Afghanistan on Wednesday, a suicide bomber in Kabul blew himself up after crawling under a bus carrying army personnel, injuring six soldiers and four civilians. | |
| It is the second attempted suicide attack in the city in the space of a week. | |