Three suicide bombers blew themselves up at the gates of a government compound in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing five policemen, an official said.The bombers struck at the governor's compound in Kandahar, said Ahmad Wali Karzai, head of the provincial council and the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
The three bombers were able to get past a first security checkpoint in the governor's compound, and one bomber detonated explosives he was wearing at a second checkpoint, the Associated Press (AP) quoted him as saying. "The two other bombers moved deeper into the compound before the police fired on them and their explosives detonated," he said.