Three suicide bombers struck southern Afghanistan Tuesday leaving four people dead and about a dozen wounded in the latest wave of attacks. The bombings came as top Afghan and US officials met in the capital for talks on building post-Taliban Afghanistan and helping it meet the threat from the Islamic extremists, who were driven from government in 2001.
The deadliest attack was in the border town of Spin Boldak, where a man with explosives strapped to his body blew himself up in the middle of a crowd of people, a border police commander said. "Three civilians were killed on the spot. Six injured were brought to hospital on the Pakistan side and a 14-year-old injured Afghan boy died there," General Mohammad Raziq said.
The attacker struck among people who were being searched at the busy border post, he said. There were two suicide bomb explosions minutes apart in Lashkar Gah, capital of the southern province of Helmand. The first hit a convoy of an international aid agency in the centre of the town, the British military component of the Nato-led force that has a base there told AFP.