Islamabad - A major explosion in Kandahar, the southern headquarters of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, has killed several people and injured others, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said yesterday.
According to AIP, a private agency based in Peshawar in north-west Pakistan, the cause of the blast was not known but the city's inhabitants believed they were under air attack from the United States and fled in panic. The agency did not give further details of the explosion, which could not be immediately confirmed by independent sources.
On August 20th last year the US launched cruise missiles on suspected terrorist training camps belonging to the alleged terrorist, Osama bin Laden, in Afghanistan. The attack was in retaliation for the bombings on August 7th, 1998, of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that left more than 200 people dead.