KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A double bombing tore through the centre of AfghanistanÂ’s southern city of Kandahar Thursday, killing seven security guards and policemen, a provincial police chief said. Both blasts were apparently caused by remotely detonated bombs.The first blast struck the vehicle of a private security company, killing four of the guards, Kandahar police chief Ismatullah Alizai told AFP. The bodies of the four men killed in the first blast were hurled from the vehicle by the force of the explosion, the AFP reporter said. The vehicle was destroyed and burst into flames.
About half an hour later, as police and reporters gathered at the site, a second bomb exploded just metres (yards) away, an AFP reporter at the scene said. ‘In the second explosion, three policemen were killed and some police were wounded,’ Alizai said. A policeman at the scene, Mohammad Jan, said four policemen were wounded including the deputy provincial police chief, Abdul Hakim Angar. A reporter was also slightly wounded.