At least 11 people were killed and scores more wounded Thursday when the
Taliban attacked a
police headquarters in the southern city of Kandahar, officials and the insurgents said.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said the afternoon attack in Afghanistan's second-largest city started with a car
bomb, then saw gunmen storm the police compound.
Baheer Ahmadi, the Kandahar governor's spokesman, said in a statement that 11 people had been killed, including nine civilians and two police officers, while another 80 -- including women and children -- were wounded.