Strong blasts rock Afghan capital Kabul

Several US warplanes have roared over the Afghan capital Kabul tonight and unleashed several bombs or missiles that exploded …

Several US warplanes have roared over the Afghan capital Kabul tonight and unleashed several bombs or missiles that exploded in and around the city in just a few minutes.

There were four or five loud explosions that sounded like they were in the city centre, and those were followed by about six or seven explosions near Kabul, a witness said.

Earlier today, Qatar's al-Jazeera television has reported that US military strikes on Afghanistan have killed 93 civilians in a village near Kandahar.

The dead allegedly include 18 members of one family.

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The TV channel said at least 40 other civilians were wounded in the attack by US warplanes on the village.

It said the 18 family members who died in the attack had fled Kandahar for safety in the village following US military strikes on the city, which is a Taliban stronghold.

Al-Jazeera broadcast videophone footage provided by its correspondent in Kandahar, Youssef alShouli, showing a row of corpses wrapped in white shrouds lined up against the wall inside a room.

At least one of the corpses was that of a child and a second was of an elderly man.

The television also broadcast footage of children, women and elderly men receiving treatment at a hospital in Kandahar.