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KANDAHAR, Feb 7 (AFP): A powerful bomb exploded outside the police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Tuesday, killing 13 people and wounding 11 others, a doctor said.
The interior ministry confirmed the blast was caused by a bomb. A destroyed motorbike was at the scene of the blast, which was splattered in blood, an AFP correspondent said.
"Thirteen people, most of them police, have died in the bomb blast in Kandahar city and were taken to the Kandahar public health hospital," a doctor on duty, who gave his name as Mamoon, told AFP.
"Eleven are wounded, most of them in critical condition," he said.
Police and Canadian soldiers with the US-led coalition force in Afghanistan immediately sealed off the area, which is outside the provincial police headquarters.
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