3 policemen killed in suicide bomb blast in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province; several injured
The incident took place at 4:00 am (local time) in Shah Wali Kot district, as a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives near the Police HQ.
Casualties were feared as a suicide car bomb targeted a foreign military convoy in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province on Monday, officials said.
“A terrorist riding an explosives-laden car parked it alongside a road in Dand district and blew it up next to a military convoy of foreign forces today (Monday) afternoon,” a government official told Xinhua news agency.
Qudratullah Khoshbakht, a spokesman for Kandahar provincial government, confirmed the attack but refused to comment on the possible casualties.
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The NATO-led Resolute Support mission has yet to issue any statement on the incident.
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