Kandahar (Afghanistan): A suicide bomber killed 10 civilians in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, the second attack on the same day that President Hamid Karzai was sworn into office, police said.
The bombing in Uruzgan province followed an apparent suicide attack in the neighbouring province of Zabul which killed two US soldiers and took place around the same time President Hamid Karzai was being inaugurated.
"Ten civilians were killed and 13 others were injured," Uruzgan deputy police chief Mohammad Gulab Wardak told reporters.
The bomber was wearing an explosive-packed vest which he detonated near a convoy of Afghan security forces, he said.
Bureau Report
First Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 21:51