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27 killed in Afghan suicide blasts
RELATEDYOUR E-MAIL ALERTSKANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- At least 27 people have been killed in two suspected suicide bombings in southern Afghanistan, according to news reports. In the border town of Spin Boldak, 22 people were killed and another 20 wounded when an attacker drove a motorbike into a crowd in the downtown area, Kandahar's governor, Haji Asadullah Khalid, told CNN. The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press news agency quoted a Taliban spokesman claiming responsibility for the blast. Earlier Monday, a suicide bomber killed three soldiers and two civilians in southern city of Kandahar, Reuters reported. Four Afghan soldiers and 10 civilians were also wounded in the attack. No further details were available about the attacks, which came during a second day of violence in Afghanistan. On Sunday, a Canadian diplomat and two civilians were killed in an apparent suicide attack in Kandahar, officials said. Thirteen others were wounded in the blast. (Full story) Glyn Berry, 59, was a veteran Canadian foreign affairs official who was posted to Afghanistan last August, Reuters reported. Kandahar Police Chief Abdul Malik Wahidi said 10 of the wounded were Afghans. "At about 1 p.m. this afternoon, a car deliberately crashed into a vehicle in a Canadian convoy about 200 meters from the city gates in Kandahar, outside the department for transportation," Wahidi said. "This was definitely a suicide attack. The car was filled with ammunition. The attacker was blown to pieces, and so far, we have been unable to identify him." U.S. military spokesman Col. James Yonts said militants have shifted their attacks away from military personnel toward softer targets. "The enemy knows he cannot defeat us militarily," AP quoted Yonts as saying. "He is shifting his tactics to soft targets. He will strike without warning and he will strike, as we have seen, unfortunately against civilians." Copyright 2006 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report. 
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