Bombers target Kandahar governor

At least five people have been killed by a group of suicide bombers who attacked the Kandahar governor's compound in Afghanistan.Three bombers carried out the attack, detonating their explosives at the compound entrance on Saturday killing five people and injuring nine, police said.Three police were among the dead and three women among the wounded.The governor, who was in the compound with his deputy at the time, was not hurt.Mullah Hayat Khan, a Taliban commander, claimed that the group was behind the attack, the Reuters news agency reported.Al Jazeera's Nick Clark, reporting from the Afghan capital, Kabul, said: "This is a relatively new tactic by  the Taliban going in as suicide bombers armed with AK-47s."The first went into a container at the first checkpoint into the property where they check IDs. There he blew himself up.