Three suicide bombers have attacked a provincial governor's office in southern Afghanistan, killing five policemen and wounding at least eight others.
The bombers tried to enter the office of the Kandahar governor on Saturday afternoon but were stopped by policemen guarding the compound, provincial council head Ahmad Wali Karzai said.
"Five policemen were killed in the explosion," Karzai, the younger brother of President Hamdi Karzai, said.
"One of the bombers detonated his explosives at the gate of the compound and two others went inside," provincial police chief Matiullah Qateh said, adding that the two other bombers were shot dead by police forces before they could make their way to offices.
He said the provincial governor was unharmed, but three more policemen and five civilians were wounded in the blasts.
No group immediately took responsibility. Taliban militants, who were driven from power in late 2001, have been behind hundreds of such attacks in the past.
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