Kandahar rocked once again
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:08:19 GMT


A powerful blast hits the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a few hours after a series of explosions left 35 people killed in the city.

The explosion stroke a district in southern part of the city early Sunday morning, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Heavy clouds of smoke reached the sky near a foreign industrial firm in the area, where locals believe to be the target of the attack.

The number of the casualties is not yet announced.

The news comes a few hours after a suicide squad detonated four bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, in Kandahar.

Thirty-five people were killed and 100 other injured in the blasts in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland.

Ahmed Wali Karzai, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half-brother, and a member of the Kandahar provincial council, said the prison was the main target of the Saturday blast, but no prisoners escaped.

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