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Donkey bomb kills two in Afghanistan

15/11/2011 19:43:00
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A bomb strapped to a donkey blew up in northern Afghanistan yesterday, killing a policeman and a civilian and wounding 16 people, officials said.
The bomb went off in a market in Ghormach district, Faryab province. Although donkey bombs are rare in Afghanistan, they are occasionally used by insurgents as a way of getting close to targets.
A spokesman for the Faryab police chief, Sayed Massoud Yaqubi, said that one policeman and a civilian had died in hospital after the attack.
He added: “This morning a bag of explosives strapped around a donkey detonated.”
Afghan government forces are fighting a bloody war against a decade-long, Taliban-led insurgency with the help of around 140,000 international troops stationed in Afghanistan.

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