Afghanistan bomb attacks kill 16

At least 16 people, many of them children, were killed in explosions at the office of a US security contractor in Afghanistan’s capital and a school in the south east as the country moves towards its first post-Taliban election.

A powerful car bomb tore through Dyncorp, an American firm based in Kabul that provides security for Afghan president Hamid Karzai and works for the US government in Iraq, killing at least seven people, including two Americans, and wounding several others.