KHOST, April 14: At least 13 people, seven of them policemen and two soldiers, were killed in Afghanistan on Saturday in a series of explosions, one targeting a police headquarters, officials said.

A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of the police station in Khost, killing four officers, three policemen and a civilian, the government said. About 10 others were injured.

“I saw him trying to walk into the headquarters. Our policemen guarding the gate stopped him and he blew himself up,” said a witness, Salahuddin.

A doctor in the city hospital said six wounded policemen had been admitted.

A purported Taliban spokesman, Yousuf Ahmadi, calling AFP from an unknown location, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the bomber was an Afghan.

Police said three suspected militants carrying explosives were killed when their bombs went off outside Ghazni.

Two Afghan soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Ander district.

—AFP