International Law

?Suicide Attack Kills 36 in Afghanistan?

By Rob Hyndman

Another day, another nightmare.

In the second serious attack in southern Afghanistan in two days, a suicide bomber set off an explosion as he drove his car near a convoy of Canadian troops on Monday in a crowded street in the border town of Spin Boldak, killing 36 civilians and wounding 38.

The governor of Kandahar Province, Asadullah Khaled, called it a cataclysm for the Afghan people. Three or four Canadian soldiers, part of the NATO security force in Afghanistan, were injured in the blast but the brunt of the explosion was felt by civilians, mainly street vendors and people selling fruit on pushcarts beside the road, he said. Several shops also caught fire in the town, the main border crossing to Pakistan, he said.

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At a news briefing later in the day, Mr. Khaled lashed out at Canadian forces for patrolling in crowded places when there was a known suicide bomb threat in the area.

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Full post as published by Rob Hyndman .com on February 18, 2008 (boomark / email).