Afghan authorities say police defused a motorcycle bomb that was meant to go off in the southern city of Kandahar shortly after a suicide car bombing there killed three and wounded 26 people, most of them police. The Interior Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that the explosives-laden motorbike was discovered Monday at a busy intersection in the center of the city, about a mile (1.5 kilometers) from where the suicide bomber struck. The Kandahar governor's spokesman, Zalmai Ayubi, says it appears the motorcycle was to have exploded shortly after the suicide bomber detonated his car, according to a report of the Associated Press.
