KABUL: A suicide bomber with a horse and cart detonated himself Thursday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing eight people and wounding five, a senior police officer said.
The explosion happened around 7.15 pm (1445 GMT) outside the Kandahar provincial health ministry directorate and a guesthouse sometimes used by foreigners, deputy provincial police chief Sazel Ahmad Shairzad said.
‘Five of the dead were killed while sitting in a car nearby,’ he said.
The other three dead were passers-by, he added.
The suicide bomber detonated explosives on his body and in his car after being ordered by police, who had been following him, to stop, he said.
Windows in buildings on both sides of the road were blown out, and nearby walls were partially damaged.
Kandahar was the site in late August of a massive truck bomb that killed 43 people and injured another 65, most of them civilians.—AFP
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