Motorcycle bomb kills one person, wounds 3 in south Afghan city

A motorcycle bomb killed an Afghan intelligence official and wounded three people in the southern city of Kandahar today, a local government spokesman told Reuters.

Two of the wounded were also intelligence officers, while the other person wounded in the blast was a
civilian, the spokesman said. Kandahar city is the regional capital of the province where a US soldier killed
16 civilians March 11.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the bombing, but Kandahar province is a Taliban stronghold.

————————Reuters