Three people including a child were killed in blasts in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, police said, after Canada announced the loss of another soldier fighting the extremist Taliban. Both blasts were in the eastern province of Khost, which adjoins Pakistan's tribal areas where radical rebels, including from al Qaeda, are said to have bases.
In the first incident, a bomb planted in a road blew up the vehicle of a provincial police administrator as he was going to work, Khost deputy police chief Colonel Mohammad Youqoub told AFP.
The official and his driver were killed in the blast in the town centre. Hours later a child was killed and at least three other people, including another child, wounded when explosives allegedly being fixed into a car for a suicide bombing blew up on the outskirts of the town, police said.