Kazakhstan: Suicide bomber targets Kazakh state security building

May 17, Aktyubinsk (AKI) - A suicide bomber blew himself up on Tuesday outside a regional security building in the western Kazakh city of Aktyubinsk, a police source said, cited by RIA Novosti news agency.

Only the bomber was killed in the attack, according to RIA Novosti.

A spokesman for Kazakhstan's prosecutor general's office said it would hold a news briefing in a few hours.

Terrorist attacks are rare in the Central Asian state, which has been ruled by the former Soviet-era leader Nursultan Nazarbayev since independence in 1991.