50 wounded in the suicide bombing that happened on Monday morning
\nnews agency
\nKABUL\/MAZAR-I-SHARIF
\nTaliban militants clashed with security forces following a car bomb blast at a government compound in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing ten people and wounding dozens more, officials said.
\nThe attack took place at a government facility in Samangan province\u2019s capital Aybak close to an office of the National Security Directorate, the main intelligence agency.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a complex attack that started with a car bomb,\u201d said Mohammad Sediq Azizi, a spokesman for the provincial government.
\nThe attack ended after four gunmen died following clashes with Afghan security forces, he added.
\nAbdul Latif Ibrahimi, Samangan\u2019s governor, said ten security members were killed and 54 people, including civilians, were wounded.
\nIn a statement, the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes at a sensitive time as violence increases even as the United States tries to usher the government and militants toward peace talks to end more than 18 years of war.
\nThe violence threatens to hamper progress on the talks, which have not started due to a separate disagreement over the release of 600 Taliban prisoners from 5,000 the group has demanded.
\nLocal officials also accused the Taliban of attacking security force checkpoints around the country overnight, killing seven personnel in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, 14 in northern Kunduz, and four in the central province of Parwan.
\nThe Taliban said in statements they had carried out attacks killing nine in Kunduz and eight in Badakhshan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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