Motorbike bomb kills policewoman in Afghanistan

Thursday 29 September 2011 09:17 BST

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A bomb set up on a motorbike exploded near an airport in western Afghanistan, killing a policewoman and two civilians.

Sayd Sharif Mohammadi, the police commander for the airport in Herat city, said the attack today targeted five female officers in a police vehicle on their way to work at the airport.

Mr Mohammadi said the bomb was detonated by remote control and the explosion wounded 10 people - the other four police officers in the vehicle, its driver and five civilians nearby.

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