KANDAHAR: A suicide car bomber killed eight Afghan civilians on Thursday when he detonated his explosives outside a hotel frequented by foreigners in southern Kandahar city, a senior police official said.
“Police spotted the suicide bomber and fired at him but he managed to detonate his explosives. As a result eight people were martyred,” senior police officer Fazl Ahmad Sherzai told reporters in Kandahar.
Meanwhile, a Canadian soldier serving under Nato has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, the alliance said on Thursday.Nato’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) in the Taliban-plagued south, but did not give the exact location.Most of the 2,800 Canadian troops are deployed in southern Kandahar province, a hotbed of the insurgency.
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