KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, February 02, SPA -- A suicide bomber detonatedhis explosives inside a police training center in southernAfghanistan on Monday, killing 19 officers and wounding atleast 20, a police chief said. The bomber entered the training facility in Tirin Kot, thecapital of Uruzgan province, as the police reservists wereexercising, said Juma Gul Himat, Uruzgan's provincialpolice chief. The blast, which also damaged the compound, killed 18policemen and wounded at least 20, Himat said. Eight of thewounded were in critical condition. Southern Afghanistan is the center of their fight againstthe government and international military forces, andmilitants control wide swaths of territory. In 2008, some 868 policemen were killed in insurgent attacks, according to a tally of figures collected by The Associated Press. More than 900police were killed in 2007.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/631807