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Eight dead in market blast

Published:Wednesday | August 17, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Iraqis inspect the site of a bombing in Kirkuk, Iraq, Monday. Bomb blasts ripped through more than a dozen Iraqi cities Monday morning, killing scores of people - most of them in the southern city of Kut - in a wave of violence that shattered what had been a relatively peaceful holy month of Ramadan. - AP

KANDAHAR (AP):

A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded in a vegetable market in southern Afghanistan yesterday evening, killing eight people at dusk as residents broke their daily fast for the holy month of Ramadan, authorities said.

The motorcycle was parked at the market in the Dihrawud district of Uruzgan province, said provincial council director Amanullah Otaq. He said eight people were killed and dozens wounded.

Uruzgan provincial spokesman Hamid Milad Mudasir confirmed the attack, but said he could not confirm how many people were killed because family members had taken many of the bodies away immediately after the attack.

The blast was the latest in a series of attacks in the turbulent south, where the Taliban are pushing back against a concerted campaign from US and NATO troops to quell the insurgency.

In neighbouring Kandahar province, a gunman killed a woman who works for the Afghan government as she was on her way to work in Kandahar city. The assailant shot Rabia Sadat twice as she was getting into a car outside her home Tuesday morning, said her father, Sayed Hussein Sadat.