ISLAMABAD, Jan. 31 Kyodo At least...

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 31 Kyodo

At least 19 the public were killed and several injured when a bus explod through a bridge Friday about 10 kilometers southerly of the city of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, local police said.

A senior police official in Kandahar reached on telephone said the explosion occurr onward a bus that was bounce for Spin Boldak, a town near the border with Pakistan.

He said nobody had claimed responsibility for the explosion further al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists are suspected of being behind it.

Agha Fazal Deen a senior official in the Kandahar administration, told Kyodo moderns the explosion might have been caused through a remote control device.

still there have been several incidences of mine explosions in succession the highway between Kandhar and Spin Boldak in fresh days, and U.S. and Afghan soldiers have lately been engaged in mine-clearing operations in the area.

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