Taliban bombers kill dozens in suicide attacks on Kandahar

By Rob Crilly 818PM GMT thirteen March 2010

When Kandahar jail was pounded in 2008, 1000 inmates were liberated together with about 400 locked up fighters Photo EPA

Buildings collapsed and some-more than 50 people were harmed in what military believed were a mutual array of attacks that came after nightfall. The prison, that is full of Taliban detainees, was successfully pounded in 2008 when 1000 inmates were liberated together with about 400 locked up fighters.

Ahmad Wali Karzai, half-brother of the Afghan boss and the head of Kandahar"s provincial council, pronounced the enemy targeted the city"s prison.

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"We don"t know about the casualties. It was a really big explosion. It was a outrageous explosion," he said.

This time the walls of the jail were not breached, pronounced Mr Karzai. The bombers additionally struck nearby a hotel, a mosque and a city centre highway junction. Those blasts appeared to be diversions written to pull military afar from the main conflict on the prison, Mr Karzai added.

Television stations promote appeals for sanatorium workers to inform to work as wards were flooded with casualties. A Taliban orator fast claimed shortcoming on a jihadi website. It pronounced the attacks were a "message" to General Stanley McChrystal, the commander in chief of Nato forces, to show that they are not rebuilt to give up the city, once the Taliban"s devout home, but a struggle.

Afghanistan"s second city has been the stage of countless Taliban attacks. US-led forces are approaching to launch an operation after this year to secure it as piece of the US military"s surge in Afghanistan.

The bulk of 30,000 one more fight forces systematic to Afghanistan by President Barack Obama at the finish of last year are approaching to be deployed in Kandahar Province in the subsequent couple of months. Thousands of Canadian infantry additionally unit the city.

Large areas of the city and majority of the surrounding farmland are effectively ruled by a Taliban "shadow government".

Earlier a roadside explosve killed 6 people in the collateral of Uruzgan range in executive Afghanistan, as Nato and Afghan forces one after another a vital operation in beside Helmand province.