KANDAHAR: Suicide attackers and a remotely-controlled bomb killed more than 40 people in Afghanistan Tuesday as the nation prepared to celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan, officials said.
Three suicide bombers killed 36 people, mostly civilians shopping for Eid celebrations, in a bazaar in the capital of Afghanistan's southwestern Nimroz province on the border with Iran, the provincial governor said.
Hours later in the northern province of Kunduz, a bomb attached to a motorcycle killed up to 10 people in the market of Archi district near the border with Tajikistan, provincial spokesman Enayatullah Khaliq told AFP.
"A bomb rigged to a motorcycle was remotely detonated in the market of Archi district Tuesday evening killing 10 civilians and injuring over 30," he said. A police spokesman put the toll at nine adding that Taliban insurgents were responsible for the attack. The earlier attack on Zaranj city, capital of Nimroz, was the biggest in recent memory in the relatively peaceful province.
At least 66 people were injured. Three suicide attackers out of an original group of 11 blew themselves up in separate areas of the city, one outside a hospital, police said.
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