13 Dead In Afghan Bombings
By Associated Press | April 24, 2008
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A spate of suicide bombings and other attacks on security forces in southern Afghanistan yesterday left 13 people dead and 24 others wounded, officials said.
In Kandahar province, a suicide bomber blew himself up next to a vehicle carrying intelligence agents in the border town of Spin Boldak, killing three civilians, the governor of Kandahar, Assadullah Khalid, said. Two children and three intelligence agents were among the 14 hurt, Mr. Khalid said. A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said the insurgent group was behind the attack and identified the bomber as a man named Gul Mohammad.
A 16-year-old boy who was wounded in the explosion said police shot at the bomber before he detonated explosives.
