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Suicide bomber kills six Afghan children
KABUL, Afghanistan, A suicide bomber in Afghanistan's Kandahar province killed six children Monday but did not injure the intended target, a government official, police said.
The explosion in the Dand district west of Kandahar city occurred as people -- including the apparent target, district government chief Hamadullah Nazak -- were heading for work, the Los Angeles Times reported. Schoolchildren also were also out on the street when the blast ripped through a busy market area in Gohsi Khan.
Five of the children died at the scene and a sixth died later, provincial government spokesman Zalmay Ayubi said. He said all of the children were under the age of 10.
Nazak was not hurt, although a bodyguard was wounded, officials said.
In a separate incident, Waheedullah Sabawon, an adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai on tribal affairs, and seven members of his entourage were wounded Monday when a roadside bomb detonated near their convoy in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, a senior military official told Xinhua, China's state-run news agency.
A military official said an explosive device was planted in rickshaw and remotely detonated when Sabawon's motorcade passed.
On Sunday, two British troops were killed in separate incidents in separate incidents in Helmand province, where Afghan and coalition forces have been fighting to remove insurgents from around the town of Saidabad, the BBC reported.
The British Defense Ministry said the two deaths did not appear to be tied to the military operation that began Friday.
KABUL, Afghanistan, A suicide bomber in Afghanistan's Kandahar province killed six children Monday but did not injure the intended target, a government official, police said.
The explosion in the Dand district west of Kandahar city occurred as people -- including the apparent target, district government chief Hamadullah Nazak -- were heading for work, the Los Angeles Times reported. Schoolchildren also were also out on the street when the blast ripped through a busy market area in Gohsi Khan.
Five of the children died at the scene and a sixth died later, provincial government spokesman Zalmay Ayubi said. He said all of the children were under the age of 10.
Nazak was not hurt, although a bodyguard was wounded, officials said.
In a separate incident, Waheedullah Sabawon, an adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai on tribal affairs, and seven members of his entourage were wounded Monday when a roadside bomb detonated near their convoy in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, a senior military official told Xinhua, China's state-run news agency.
A military official said an explosive device was planted in rickshaw and remotely detonated when Sabawon's motorcade passed.
On Sunday, two British troops were killed in separate incidents in separate incidents in Helmand province, where Afghan and coalition forces have been fighting to remove insurgents from around the town of Saidabad, the BBC reported.
The British Defense Ministry said the two deaths did not appear to be tied to the military operation that began Friday.
