Twin blasts kill 23 in Afghanistan

A twin suicide bombing attack killed 23 people yesterday in a car park crammed with vehicles supplying a major Nato base in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, police said.
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck first and as a crowd gathered to help the victims a second bomber walked into their midst and set off explosives strapped to his body, provincial police chief General Abdul Raziq told AFP.
The attack happened in a parking lot holding dozens of trucks supplying the Nato-run Kandahar Air Base and a makeshift bazaar.
Twenty-three people, all civilians, were killed and 50 others wounded, Raziq said, describing most of the victims as drivers, their assistants and workers.