A suicide bomber rammed his car into a Canadian military convoy near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan Monday, killing 35 civilians, officials said. The explosion also injured at least 25 people, including two Canadian soldiers, said Kandahar border police commander General Abdul Raziq.The attack took place in a market area in the town of Spin Boldak, he said.
The death toll from Sunday's suicide bomb that exploded in a crowd of spectators at a dog fighting match has topped 100, a provincial governor told CNN Monday.
The explosion, one of the deadliest in the country's history since the hard-line Islamist movement, the Taliban, was routed in a U.S.-led invasion in 2001, wounded dozens more in the western section of Kandahar.
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