Afghan Suicide Attack Targets Police in Kandahar KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle in a police parking lot next to a civilian area in central Kandahar on Sunday, killing at least seven people, five of them police, in the fourth such bombing or attempted bombing in almost a month. At least 19 people, including several police officers, were brought to Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar and were in critical condition, said Mohammed Daoud Farhad , a doctor at the Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar where the casualties were taken. Windows were shattered in more than a hundred shops in a nearby bazaar, leaving the streets thick with broken glass. The area where the explosion occurred is on a main road used by civilians that runs beside a large sewage canal. The bodies of three of the dead police were thrown into the canal by the explosion and other police vehicles were overturned. Kandahar had been relatively quiet for months, but there have been a series of suicide bombings since Jan. 11, when there was a foiled attack on the police headquarters. The influential governor of Panjway District was assassinated by a suicide bomber on Jan. 12, and on Jan. 19, a suicide bomber killed seven people, including two children, near the gates of one of the largest NATO bases in the country. Local shopkeepers said they had warned the police about parking their cars in the area, which is frequented daily by crowds of civilians. The police are a regular target in Kandahar and have been attacked dozens of times in the last two years. Mohammad Zaman, a shopkeeper who sells vegetables nearby, said he saw a white Toyota Corolla careening along the street at high speed. "I saw it turn the corner where the police vehicles were parked and I thought it might be a crazy person or a reckless policeman driving it," Mr. Zaman said at the hospital where he was treated. Then he heard a huge sound and felt as if someone had thrown him on the ground. He later woke in the hospital. "I expected this kind of explosion in the place where police park their vehicles," he said, adding that the government "should look after the people" when it decides where to put a police parking lot. Another shopkeeper, Haji-Muhammad, who was sweeping up broken glass, described civilians as caught in the middle. "This is Kandahar, we don't expect good things and many innocent people here have lost their lives," he said. I pray God lets me and my little son survive. "However, this is not the place for police to park their vehicles," he added. "They are targets, why aren't they paying attention to civilians" lives and the Taliban doesn't pay any attention either." The provincial governor, Tooryalai Wesa, condemned the attack saying that "the enemy of Islam, peace and Afghanistan doesn't want peace in Afghanistan."