Taliban exact revenge with deadly attack on German consulate
Mazar-i-Sharif — The death toll from a powerful Taliban truck bombing at the German consulate in Afghanistan’s Mazar-i-Sharif city rose to at least six on Friday, with more than 100 wounded in a major militant assault. The Taliban said the bombing late on Thursday, which tore a massive crater in the road and overturned cars, was a "revenge attack" for US air strikes this month in the volatile province of Kunduz that left 32 civilians dead. The explosion, followed by sporadic gunfire, reverberated across the usually tranquil northern city, shearing off the facades of nearby buildings and blowing out windows several miles away. "The suicide attacker rammed his explosives-laden car into the wall of the German consulate," local police chief Sayed Kamal Sadat told AFP. All German staff from the consulate were unharmed, according to the foreign ministry in Berlin. The city’s hospitals received six dead bodies, including two killed by bullets, said local doctor Noor Mohammad Fayez. At leas...
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