Blast at Afghan intelligence centre

At least three people have been killed by a bomb which ripped through a compound of government offices in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
The attack on Wednesday wounded more than 30 people and appeared to target the city’s intelligence agency and the provincial council offices.

A police officer at the scene said that it looked as if a car bomb had been used to carry out the attack.
It is not clear whether it was driven by a suicide attacker.
Al Jazeera’s David Chater, reporting from Kandahar, said that the explosion could be heard across the city.

“This was a massive explosion, and the whole city heard it,” he said.

“The blast occurred near a house owned by Hamid Karzai’s [the Afghan president] brother. Afghan MPs and local officials are among the injured.”
In Kabul, the capital, the interior ministry confirmed the explosion, but gave no details.
Zemarai Bashary, a spokesman for the Afghan interior ministry, said: “There has been a blast in Kandahar city. At this stage we have no details. Police are at the scene.”

Kandahar has been the scene of a series of bomb attacks blamed on Taliban fighters.
In June, suicide bombers blew open the Kandahar jail, enabling more than 1000 prisoners to escape.
In September, two suicide bombers blew themselves up inside the provincial police headquarters, killing five people and wounding nearly 40.

Source: al-Jazeera