Explosion rocks near airport in Afghanistan's Kandahar

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An explosion rocked near an airport in Kandahar city, capital of Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar on Wednesday, with feared casualties, a local police said.

"The blast occurred in Shoorandam locality when a foreign forces' military convoy was passing the area at around midday," the police source told Xinhua, adding that a suicide car bombing was suspected.

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)