Thirty-six people were killed and 64 wounded in a multiple car bomb attack in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Tuesday evening, officials said according to dpa. "The information I received from our police forces in the area says that 36 people were killed and 64 others were wounded in the blasts," Gholam Ali Wahdat, police commander for the southern region told German Press Agency dpa. The blasts destroyed dozens of homes located in the central part of Kandahar city, the provincial capital, Zelmai Ayoubi, a spokesman for the provincial governor told dpa. Ayoubi said the attack took place near the office of a private road construction company, but according to witnesses, the bombs went off near a building housing the country's secret service. Shots were also heard following the explosion.
