Suicide attack kills 4 in eastern Afghanistan

Afghan police say a suicide bomber on a motorbike has detonated his explosives outside a local police headquarters, killing four people.

Abdul Rahman, who coordinates security in Paktika province, says two policemen and two civilians died in the attack Sunday in Yahya Khel district near Afghanistan's eastern border with Pakistan.

After the attack, gunmen fired bullets at the police headquarters from two or three directions, but the gunfire ended after 15 minutes and no other casualties were reported.

In Kabul, President Hamid Karzai appointed a panel of high-ranking officials, led by Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak, to investigate the assassination of former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who headed the nation's peace council.