Roadside bomb kills 10 Afghan civilians: police

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) — A bomb blew up a minibus outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Saturday, killing 10 civilians, while a judge and his son were gunned down in the same area, police said.

There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attacks, but they were similar to scores carried out by the extremist Islamic Taliban militia, which is behind a spiralling insurgency in Afghanistan.

The roadside bomb hit the minibus about 20 kilometres (12 miles) outside of Kandahar, provincial police chief Matiullah Khan said.

The dead included two children, a woman and seven men, he said. Four other civilians were wounded.

Just south of the city, meanwhile, two unidentified gunmen on motorbikes knocked on the door of the home of a...