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1 killed, 3 injured in suicide attack in S. Afghanistan

Xinhua, September 20, 2015 Adjust font size:

One person was killed while three others wounded following a suicide car bombing in southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Sunday, the provincial government spokesman said.

"One terrorist detonated a car bomb near a security checkpoint in Daman district at around 11:30 a.m. local time, killing himself on the spot and injuring three people," spokesman Samim Khpalwak told Xinhua.

The injured, including two police personnel and a passerby, were shifted to a hospital, he added.

Furthermore, a security official, who declined to be named, told Xinhua that the blast took place near the Kandahar airport and has left four police, one foreign solider and a civilian wounded.

The Taliban militant group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Earlier on Sunday, two civilians were killed while one other was wounded when a vehicle touched off a landmine in Kandahar's Nesh district, according to Khpalwak.

Kandahar province with Kandahar city as its capital, some 450 km south of Afghan capital, is notorious for poppy growing and militancy. Endi