A bomb-filled tanker exploded outside the office of the provincial council in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Wednesday, killing six people and wounding 42.Wali Karzai, brother of President Hamid Karzai and head of the council, was in the building at the time but was unharmed. ìI am fine and safe,î he told reporters later. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast.
A spokesman, Yousuf Ahmadi, told AFP by telephone that the target was the provincial council. The explosives-filled tanker dug four metres deep and eight metres wide crater into the road just outside the council building.
"Six people, including an intelligence employee were killed, two intelligence guards and three passers-by, including a woman were injured," Kandahar province governor Rahmatullah Raufi told a press conference