Motorbike bomber kills 20 spectators at wrestling match

A MAN on a motorbike drove up to a crowd watching a wrestling match in an Afghan border town yesterday and detonated a bomb killing 20 people and wounding at least 30 others — the deadliest in a recent spate of attacks.

The attack came hours after a bomb hit a convoy of Afghan army trucks loaded with troops in the southern city of Kandahar, killing four and wounding 16.

The man on the motorbike detonated explosives strapped to his body near a crowd of about 100 people watching a wrestling match at a fair in Spinboldak, a key crossing point into southern Pakistan, said Kandahar provincial governor Asadullah Khalid.