Deadly attack on Afghan recruits

Afghan insurgents are increasingly targeting civilians in their attacks

At least 33 people have been killed in an apparent suicide attack on an army recruitment centre in northern Afghanistan, local officials have said.

More than 40 people were also reported to have been injured in the attack in the city of Kunduz.

On Friday, the Kunduz province police chief was killed by a suicide bomber.

Over the last few years, the once peaceful province has become increasingly unstable as the Taliban have infiltrated the area.

People were waiting in the recruitment centre when the attack took place, a senior official told the BBC’s Bilal Sarwary.

Those killed included civilians as well as those who had come to enrol, as well as officers in the Afghan army, he said.

A doctor in a hospital in Kunduz has told the BBC he had received 33 dead bodies, and that some of the injured were in a very serious condition.

This attack comes four days after the provincial police chief of Kunduz, Abdul Rahman Sayedkhili, was killed by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle in the city along with four other people. That attack was claimed by the Taliban.

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