A suicide bomber killed at least ten people in an attack in an Afghan provincial capital during a visit by the US ambassador today. The envoy was unhurt.
Another 50 people were wounded, 15 critically, in the incident in Tarin Kot, capital of the central province of Uruzgan, said Haji Abdul Aziz, the deputy provincial governor.
He said the attack took place in a bazaar about 1.5 km from the Governor's House, which US ambassador Ronald E. Neumann was visiting.
Suspected Taliban guerrillas have carried out a spate of suicide bombings in recent weeks.
Earlier today Afghan security forces blew up a car packed with explosives they believe was intended for an attack on US-led forces in the southern town of Spin Boldak, which is also in Kandahar, on the Pakistani border, police said.
On Monday, a suicide attacker drove a car bomb into a convoy of foreign troops in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, wounding a US soldier and an Afghan woman and a child.