KABUL, Afghanistan — Suicide attacks involving as many as 14 bombers killed at least 36 people and wounded scores more Tuesday in a southwestern Afghan city that has been largely peaceful in recent years, officials said.
And police said a motorcycle bomb outside a crowded bazaar in northern Afghanistan has killed at least 10 people, including several children, bringing the day’s death toll to at least 46.
The bombings in the southwestern province of Nimroz came during a campaign by Taliban insurgents and their allies to ratchet up attacks as international troops hand over security to Afghan forces. NATO plans to withdraw most of its troops by the end of 2014.
Not all of the attackers were able to detonate their explosives belts, and police killed and captured several of them, officials said.
At least 36 people were confirmed killed and 110 people wounded there, and the death toll could climb higher, said the head of the Nimroz provincial health department, Noor Ahmad Shirzada.
Nimroz deputy police chief Abdul Majid Latifa said 14 bombers in all were involved in the plot, while Rasouli put number at 11. Both said that two of the plotters were killed by police Monday night and three more were either killed or arrested Tuesday morning, but their initial accounts of what happened Tuesday afternoon differed.
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