Blast in Afghan south, no casualties: police
Posted on: Monday, 23 January 2006, 01:18 CST
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A blast rocked the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Monday but there were no casualties or damage, police said.
U.S. forces rapidly sealed off the area of the blast. U.S. military spokesmen were not immediately available for comment.
Police said a roadside bomb went off as an Afghan security officer was passing in a vehicle. He was unhurt.
Afghanistan has seen 13 bloody suicide blasts since November, the worst on Monday last week when 23 people were killed in the town of Spin Boldak, on the border with Pakistan.
The government says Taliban and al Qaeda militants are trying to scare off European countries who are mulling sending in peacekeepers and to unsettle aid donors ahead of an international conference on Afghanistan in London at the end of the month.
An apparent suicide attack on a Canadian military convoy in Kandahar eight days ago killed a Canadian foreign affairs official and two Afghans.
Monday's blast was in the same part of the city where a huge car bomb was safely dismantled last Thursday.
The improvised bomb, consisting of a dozen 122 mm mortar bombs and other explosives, would have caused significant damage had it gone off, a spokesman for Canadian forces in the southern city said.
Source: REUTERS
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