A bomb hidden on a bus carrying Afghan labourers from a coalition base in southern Afghanistan exploded today, killing 10 and wounding 15, police said.

US military officials, the Afghan government and the US Embassy in Kabul were today on their way to the village where about 40 people celebrating a wedding, mainly women and children, were killed and 70 injured after being bombed by American forces.

A suspected al-Qaida fighter blew himself up in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar today rather than be captured by anti-Taliban tribal soldiers.