KANDAHAR, September 7, 2008 (AFP) - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up inside the police headquarters in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar Sunday, killing at least eight people, a senior local official told AFP.

'There were two suicide bombers who blew themselves up inside the police headquarters one after another,' said Ahmad Wali Karzai, head of Kandahar's provincial council and President Hamid Karzai's brother.

'So far, according to my information, eight people have been martyred and 23 others have been wounded,' he said.