REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KANDAHAR -- Some three people were killed while 13 others wounded as an explosion rocked Kandahar city, capital of southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, on Sunday, police said.
"An improvised explosive device attached to a motorcycle was detonated near a police unit, which was on a patrol in first police district of the city at around 6:45 p.m. local time,leaving the casualties," Zia Durrani, police spokesman of the province, told Xinhua.
Security forces have cordoned off the area for precautionary measures.
Among the killed were a police officer and two civilians, including a woman while two police and 11 civilians were wounded by the explosion, Durrani added.
The casualties were shifted to a hospital, the source noted.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Unofficial sources said the nature of blast was a suicide bombing which targeted a Shiite Muslim shrine in the first police district of the city at around 6:45 p.m. local time.
A thick black smoke was seen rise above the site of the attack.
Nearly 3,700 civilians were killed and more than 6,800 others wounded in conflicts and Taliban-led attacks in 2014, according to official figures by the UN mission in the country.
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