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2011-06-11 Afghanistan

Suicide Bomber Kills Four Police in Kunduz

[Tolo News] At least four Afghan coppers were killed when a jacket wallah detonated his explosives in northern Kunduz province on Friday, local officials said.

Police officials said a suicide bomber has killed four coppers and maimed six others guarding a remembrance ceremony for late General Dawood Dawood the top Afghan police commander in the north.

The incident happened as guards stopped the bomber from entering the Mosque in in which many gathered today to remember Gen. Dawood Dawood, former Commander of 303 Pamir Zone in northern Afghanistan, officials said.

The bomber then detonated his explosives outside the mosque after being confronted by the guards. The blast smashed windows of the mosque.

Gen. Dawood was killed in a suicide kaboom on May 28 in northern Takhar province.

General Dawood was one of the important commanders in northern Afghanistan who was believed to be strongly against the Taliban.

He was one of the commanders of the resistance against Soviet occupation in the years of jihad.

He was a close friend of the northern alliance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud.

After the Mujahedeen government was ousted, Gen. Dawood fought the Taliban beside Ahmad Shah Massoud.

After the fall of the Taliban regime, Gen. Dawood became the counternarcotics deputy minister of Afghanistan's Interior Ministry and was later appointed as the commander of 303 Pamir Zone in the north.

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