Fourteen Afghans were killed, including 12 policemen, on Friday in suicide attacks across the country.

Fourteen Afghans were killed, including 12 policemen, on Friday in suicide attacks across the country.

In southern province of Uruzgan, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a police station as officers ate lunch in a dining hall, killing 12 policemen.

"A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a battalion station in Tirin Kot, the provincial capital," Abdullah Hemat, the Uruzgan governor's spokesman, told AFP.
"The bomber, who was on foot and wearing a suicide vest, blew himself up while the policemen were having lunch. As a result, 12 policemen were killed and five others wounded," he said.

The attack was the second suicide strike in Afghanistan on Friday after another bomber detonated himself at a border crossing with Pakistan, killing two people including a senior Afghan police commander.

The attacker had crossed from Pakistan to Spin Boldak on the Afghan side, Afghan officials said.