Afghan bomb rocks U.N. building

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However, in recent weeks there have been a number of attacks in Kandahar province. U.N. personnel were told to stay home for the day. U.N. officials refused to speculate on who might be behind the blast. Local authorities said coalition forces would help investigate the incident. Story Tools Click Here to try 4 Free Trial Issues of Time! Iran poll to go to run-off • U.N.: Truck bomb killed Hariri • EU 'crisis' after summit failure • U.S. House votes to keep U.N. dues EU 'crisis' after summit failure • Iran poll to go to run-off • 40 million credit cards exposed • U.S. House votes to keep U.N. dues CNN US Languages --------- Spanish German n-tv Korean Arabic Japanese Turkish On CNN TV E-mail Services CNN Mobile CNN AvantGo CNNtext Ad info Preferences SEARCH    The Web    CNN.com      © 2005 Cable News Network LP, LLLP. A Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you. Read our privacy guidelines. Contact us. All external sites will open in a new browser. CNN.com does not endorse external sites. Denotes premium content. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A car bomb exploded Tuesday afternoon, heavily damaging a U.N. building and Afghan electoral offices next door, Afghan authorities said. At least one man was wounded, TV news footage showed. He was being carried away in a stretcher. Officials said there have been no claims of responsibility. The city of Kandahar had been considered relatively safe. However, in recent weeks there have been a number of attacks in Kandahar province. U.N. personnel were told to stay home for the day. U.N. officials refused to speculate on who might be behind the blast. Local authorities said coalition forces would help investigate the incident. Story Tools Click Here to try 4 Free Trial Issues of Time! 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He was being carried away in a stretcher. Officials said there have been no claims of responsibility. The city of Kandahar had been considered relatively safe. However, in recent weeks there have been a number of attacks in Kandahar province. U.N. personnel were told to stay home for the day. U.N. officials refused to speculate on who might be behind the blast. Local authorities said coalition forces would help investigate the incident. Story Tools Click Here to try 4 Free Trial Issues of Time! Iran poll to go to run-off • U.N.: Truck bomb killed Hariri • EU 'crisis' after summit failure • U.S. House votes to keep U.N. dues EU 'crisis' after summit failure • Iran poll to go to run-off • 40 million credit cards exposed • U.S. House votes to keep U.N. dues CNN US Languages --------- Spanish German n-tv Korean Arabic Japanese Turkish On CNN TV E-mail Services CNN Mobile CNN AvantGo CNNtext Ad info Preferences SEARCH    The Web    CNN.com      © 2005 Cable News Network LP, LLLP. 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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A car bomb exploded Tuesday afternoon, heavily damaging a U.N. building and Afghan electoral offices next door, Afghan authorities said.

At least one man was wounded, TV news footage showed. He was being carried away in a stretcher.

Officials said there have been no claims of responsibility.

The city of Kandahar had been considered relatively safe. However, in recent weeks there have been a number of attacks in Kandahar province.

U.N. personnel were told to stay home for the day. U.N. officials refused to speculate on who might be behind the blast.

Local authorities said coalition forces would help investigate the incident.

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