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Car bomb hits Afghan city of Kandahar


    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A remote-controlled car bomb blast hit a police vehicle in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Tuesday and caused some casualties, witnesses said.

    The casualties included both police and civilians, theysaid.

    More than 140 people, most of them civilians, were killedin two suspected suicide raids in the past two days in otherparts of Kandahar province, a stronghold of Taliban insurgentsfighting the Afghan government and its Western backers.

    (Writing by Sayed Salahuddin; Editing by Alex Richardson)