Suicide truck bomb kills two, wounds at least 40 in Afghanistan: officials

A suicide truck bomb attack in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday killed two civilians and wounded more than 40, officials said, the latest attacks since the Taliban began their annual offensive.

June 30, 2015

 


 


Kandahar, Afghanistan — A suicide truck bomb attack in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday killed two civilians and wounded more than 40, officials said, the latest attacks since the Taliban began their annual offensive.



"It was a suicide truck bomber detonating his vehicle at the gate of police headquarters" in Lashkar Gah, provincial police spokesman Farid Ahmad Obaid told AFP. — AFP


June 30, 2015
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