Twin offensives leave 16 dead including 12 Afghan security personnel, wound 23

After almost eight months of lull in the Afghan capital Kabul, the Taliban insurgents carried out suicide bombing there on Sunday and once again smashed the hope for embracing lasting peace among the war-weary people. Sunday's bombing in Kabul was part of a coordinated twin brazen offensives carried out in the shape of suicide bombings targeted the Afghan army in Kabul and the northern Kunduz province which left 16 dead, including four bombers, and injured 23 others on a single day on Sunday. In the first offensive, two militants equipped with suicide vests, hand grenades and AK-47s stormed the national army recruitment center in Kunduz city, the capital of the northern Kunduz province, at 06:30 a.m. local time. One of the attackers, immediately after entering into the compound, blew himself up and the second one, after taking position, started firing on the service members inside the compound.

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