Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Afghanistan

Suicide Bombing Fails In Southern Afghanistan

Afghan police officers on the site of a March 30 suicide attack on a Canadian military convoy in Kandahar (file photo) (epa)

March 31, 2006 -- An Afghan army convoy in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar today suffered no casualties today after it was attacked by suicide car bomber.

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March 31, 2006

General Rahmatullah Raufi says the attacker detonated his explosives prematurely.

The attack was similar to one that targeted a foreign military convoy in Kandahar Province on March 30. On that occasion seven people were wounded.

Also on March 30, a suspected militant died in northern Afghanistan when a bomb he was carrying exploded.

(AFP, AP)

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