Police set up road blocks today around the southern Afghan city of Kandahar searching for accomplices of a suspected al-Qaida suicide bomber who killed 20 people in one of the worst terror attacks in Afghanistan since the ousting of the Taliban in 2001, officials said.

Noor Khan, Kandahar

A suspected al-Qaida suicide bomber blew himself up today during the funeral of a moderate Muslim cleric, killing 20 people including the Kabul police chief, and wounding 42 others, officials said.

A suicide bomb tore through a mosque in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan today during the funeral of a Muslim cleric who spoke out against the Taliban.