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Roadside Bomb Kills 10 in Southern Afghanistan

   VOA News  May 24, 2011
   A wounded man is transported at a hospital after a roadside bomb blast
   in the Panjwai district of Kandahar May 24, 2011

Photo: Reuters

   A wounded man is transported at a hospital after a roadside bomb blast
   in the Panjwai district of Kandahar May 24, 2011

   A health official in southern Afghanistan says a truck carrying
   laborers has struck a roadside bomb, leaving 10 people dead and at
   least 28 others wounded.
   The official, Qayoum Pakhla, said the blast happened Tuesday in
   Kandahar province as the truck was carrying the laborers to work.
   No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
   NATO said in a statement it joins President Hamid Karzai in condemning
   the killing and wounding of innocent workers.
   Also Tuesday, police in Kabul say a suicide car bomber tried to attack
   Ahmad Ziad, the deputy head of Afghanistan's intelligence agency.
   Officials said the attacker was shot before he could detonate his
   explosives, and Ziad was unharmed.
   The Afghan Taliban recently stepped up attacks against NATO and Afghan
   troops, civilians and government officials, mainly in southern and
   eastern Afghanistan.
   NATO also said a coalition aircraft crashed Tuesday in western
   Afghanistan, but no one on board was injured.

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