At least three people have been killed and many wounded in a blast inside Kabul’s main military hospital, the Afghan Defence Ministry said today.

A suspected suicide attacker detonated a bomb today outside an Afghan military training centre in Kabul, killing five people and wounding 19, the defence ministry said.

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.

Nato soldiers found human remains, but no survivors, in the wreckage of an Afghan airliner, days after it struck a snowbound peak with 104 people on board.