KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Two suicide attacks struck AfghanistanÂ’s main southern city of Kandahar about an hour apart on Saturday, killing at least five people, witnesses and police said.The first attack ripped through a vehicle of the US-led coalition based in the volatile city at around 5:45 pm, the force said. A high-ranking Afghan military official said on condition of anonymity that at least one coalition soldier was killed and four wounded, but the coalition would not confirm this.
The second blast struck about an hour later, about 100 metres (yards) from the first, an AFP reporter at the scene said. The reporter saw five bodies. “It was a suicide attack by an individual,” a police officer at the scene said, confirming five people were dead. The area had been sealed off after the first blast as medical helicopters quickly arrived and carried away the injured on stretchers.