Car bomb hits outside NATO base in Kandahar city

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Kandahar, Afghanistan, May 26, 2010, SPA -- A car bomb exploded Wednesday outside a small NATO military base in southern Afghanistan's largest city, wounding two Afghans and destroying several cars, police said. The blast occurred around 11:30 a.m. local time (0700 GMT) in a parking lot used by Afghans visiting Camp Nathan Smith in Kandahar city, said Gen. Shafiq Fazli, the police commander for southern Afghanistan. The base houses a few hundred Canadian soldiers, along with American military police and U.S. and Canadian government employees working on development projects, the Associated Press reported. Fazli said no one was killed. A police officer said that at least one security guard and one Afghan who works at the base were wounded. The officer gave only one name _ Khalid. Wednesday's blast destroyed 11 cars that were parked in the lot, along with more than a dozen motorbikes and bicycles, Fazli said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. --SPA 13:46 LOCAL TIME 10:46 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/785437

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