According to officials, at least 35 Afghan civilians were
killed when a Taliban suicide bomber rammed his car into a Canadian military
convoy near the Pakistan
border on Monday.
The attack comes a day after 100 people were killed in a
suicide explosion.
According to Kandahar
province governor Asadullah Khalid, other 27 people were wounded in the blast
which occurred in Spin Boldak, a crowded market, including three Canadian
soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.
Khalid said: "The suicide attacker detonated near a
Canadian military convoy. In the attack 35 civilians were killed, 27 civilians
were wounded and also three Canadian troops were wounded," AFP reports.
The responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Taliban.
The attack on Sunday in Kandahar at the dog fighting competition took
the death toll at 100 people. It was the deadliest attack in the country since
2001.
A man with explosives trapped to his body entered a crowd in
the Arghandab district, some 6 miles (10 km) north of Kandahar city, and
detonated it. Among the dead were also eight children.
According to Wali Karzai, brother of President Hamid Karzai
and the president of Kandahar's
provincial council, Abdul Hakim Jan, the head of the local militia was the
target of the attack. Jan was killed din the attack Karzai said.
The Taliban rejected any involvement with the attack on
Sunday.
Spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi said on Monday: “The attack west of Kandahar in a dog-fighting
ground is not our work. We do not claim responsibility for it."
The attack on Sunday was criticized by the United Nations
and several Western countries.
The UN Security Council emphasized in a statement "the
need to bring perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of this
reprehensible act of terrorism to justice.”
It repeated that "no terrorist act can reverse the path
toward peace, democracy and reconstruction in Afghanistan."
Almost 43,000 soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan under a UN mandate.
ISAF is also running 25 teams of reconstruction in Afghanistan.
