January 07 2011
A Taliban suicide bomber has attacked a bathhouse in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, the Press Association (U.K.) reports.
At least 17 people were killed in Friday's attack in Spin Boldak, including a senior border patrol officer. Twenty-three others were wounded in the explosion, said security officials.
The town is situated some 70 mi (110 km) east of Kandahar.
The police officer was the target, said a Taliban spokesman. A local Afghan intelligence source told...
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