Taliban deny responsibility for deadly Kandahar blast – Update

Kabul, August 26: A Taliban spokesman said Wednesday that the militants were not behind a deadly attack in the southern city of Kandahar that left 43 people dead the previous day.

“We were not involved in last evening’s attack in Kandahar city that killed dozens of our innocent people,” Qari Mohammad Yousif Ahmadi told the German Press Agency .

–Agencies