Al-Qaida and Taliban blamed as 18 killed in Afghanistan bus bomb

EIGHTEEN people travelling on a bus were killed yesterday when a powerful bomb destroyed a bridge in southern Afghanistan.

Only two people on the bus survived the explosion on the Rambasi Bridge, six miles south of Kandahar, deputy police chief Ustad Nazir Jan said.

He blamed Taliban and al-Qaida fugitives, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast.